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Whenever I’ve tried to ingratiate myself to an existing community, I tend to give too much, to become whatever it is they want me to be. It’s something I do automatically – I’ve learnt to immediately adapt.

Mitski

I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
MITSKI

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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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Miyazaki movies were what I was raised on. I’ve watched them since I was very young, and I’ve been greatly shaped by them.
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In my first few years of being in New York, I had a major identity crisis because I’d never stayed in one place for so long.
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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On tour, people know that if they ever ask me what I want to eat, I will always say Asian food. I’m becoming a stereotype, but it’s what I want to eat. I want to eat rice.
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I think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.
MITSKI

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I’ve been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That’s why I’m on social media a lot.
MITSKI

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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
MITSKI

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I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.
MITSKI

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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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It’s nice to know there’s a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I’m not the center of the world – in a good way.
MITSKI

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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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I created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’
MITSKI

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I think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.
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I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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Whenever I’ve tried to ingratiate myself to an existing community, I tend to give too much, to become whatever it is they want me to be. It’s something I do automatically – I’ve learnt to immediately adapt.

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Whenever I’ve tried to ingratiate myself to an existing community, I tend to give too much, to become whatever it is they want me to be. It’s something I do automatically – I’ve learnt to immediately adapt.

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