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" I didn't fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive, I created this 'ideal America.' Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, 'Oh, I don't belong here, either.' "

Mitski

Survive

Here

American

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" If I have a song where I hit some really high notes, I want to try to bring in equivalently low notes somewhere in there. "

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

" 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. "

" With solo shows, you have complete control over the set list. If you feel like you want to do something different or do a new song, you can just work it in. You can talk to the audience or not talk to the audience. There's nothing that's set. "

" Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don't put much thought into. "

" I think it's very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable. "

" I was one of those girls people called 'intense.' "

" I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks. "

" I try to be regimented and try to stay healthy and work out and eat properly and go to sleep. And not get too caught up in the industry in my regular life, so I can save all my expression and energy for my art. "

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

" I don't want to be a musician's musician. I want to be an everyone's musician. "

" 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. "

" 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. 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. "

" 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. "

" Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere. "

" 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. "

" I couldn't wait to get out of school, but once I did, I didn't actually know what I wanted to do with myself. I don't really know how it happened, but I just started writing music and realized that's what I wanted to do. "

" You always want what you can't have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born, I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained. "

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

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" I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art. "

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