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

Mitski

I didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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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.
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Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they’re still musicians, and they’re still making art.
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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.
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Belief Everyone Made Maybe Myself Preserve Purpose
I was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don’t know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time.
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I don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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Everyone Musical Musician Want
It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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On one hand, I think it’s very important to talk about race and talk about gender, because if it’s not talked about, then we won’t progress.
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I feel like I’ve always wanted to live in one place and stay in one place, but I always end up choosing things that make me travel.
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Always Choose Feel Like Make One Place Stay Thing Travel Want
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.
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I think growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that’s important in the process of writing and trying to look at subjective matter that way.
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I discovered I was an Asian American when I arrived in the U.S. I didn’t identify as that before I came here.
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Then you start to realise, ‘Oh, I’m bending a lot,’ and they’re just standing there existing, and I’m bending around them. But you can’t blame them: they don’t realise it; that’s just how they already existed. It’s hard.
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I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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