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

Mitski

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.
MITSKI

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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
MITSKI

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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

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I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
MITSKI

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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.
MITSKI

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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
There’s this myth that women are supposed to compete with each other or something, or we’re supposed to hate each other, and that’s totally not productive.
MITSKI

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When you’re an adult, things mellow out. I think when you’re a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.
MITSKI

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I hate that my opinions are gonna be on record… that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.
MITSKI

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I tend to kind of try to use what’s in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don’t already have.
MITSKI

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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
MITSKI

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When you’re young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
MITSKI

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You can never learn enough about music.
MITSKI

Enough Learn Music never
When you’re doing something you’re not used to, you kind of realize that you’re still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you’re expected to act like an adult, you still haven’t actually grown up.
MITSKI

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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
MITSKI

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I didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
MITSKI

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