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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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" 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

Small

World

" I discovered I was an Asian American when I arrived in the U.S. I didn't identify as that before I came here. People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way. "

Mitski

American

Here

" 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. "

" If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me. "

" I know for a fact that I'm problematic. I shouldn't be looked to for any kind of guidance. "

" When I started making music, I was like, 'This is something I can believe I was meant to do.' "

Mitski

I Can

Believe

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

" 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. "

" I don't think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction. "

" I don't think 'bleak' is a bad thing. "

" Often I've had problems automatically bending to a lover's will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, 'This is what I love!' "

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

" My personality's very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot. "

" When someone is a musician - trying to make a living off being a public figure - it's really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn't have a personal life. "

Mitski

Trying

People

" I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, 'I love this place.' "

" 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 don't want to be elitist. "

Mitski

Want

Elitist

" On tour, I don't drink, because I don't think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink whisky. "

" 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. "

" I've been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time. "

" 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. "

" It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely. "

" I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities. "

" I don't care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions - it's overwhelming, because things don't fade for me. "