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I’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.

Mitski

I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
MITSKI

Accept Acknowledge Being Have Institution Thing
I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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Country Listen Love River See Think Would
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

Any Big Easily Get Go Know Nice Own Perspective Small Stuck Tend To World
I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
MITSKI

Art Artist Being Little Make People Realize Think
My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.
MITSKI

Around Artist Counties Father Folk Hink Music Obesess Perform World
I took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn’t last; I just learned piano from doing it over and over on my own, because I didn’t have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house.
MITSKI

Do Few Kid Last Lesson Over Own Piano Took
I created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’
MITSKI

Belong Came Country Create Either Idea Realise
What I have a problem with is when it becomes another form of tokenization, of shrinking me into a symbol instead of a multilayered, female Asian artist.
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Another Female Mukttilayer Problem Sgrink Symbol Token
I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
MITSKI

Attain Country Culture Dream Enter Inherited never Something
I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
MITSKI

Bad Bleak Thing Think
I don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
MITSKI

Anything Care Emotion Expres Make Music Nostalgic
I think it’s our responsibility as artists to not only fight for our art but fight for the communities that are the reason we’re able to continue making art, especially since, in Brooklyn’s case, we as artists somehow made it ‘cool’ enough for the bigger money-making industries to start taking over.
MITSKI

Able Artist Communities Fight Our Reason Responsibility Think
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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Being Country Crisis First Few Identity Long Major never One Place Stay Year
I think what’s hard for me is not that I don’t get downtime to chill, it’s that I don’t get time to make music.
MITSKI

Chill Downtime Hard Make Music Think
Maybe this is a made-up belief to preserve myself, but I do believe that everyone has a purpose, and my purpose is to put out music that means something.
MITSKI

Belief Everyone Made Maybe Myself Preserve Purpose
I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
MITSKI

Artist Comfortable Dangerous Think Very

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