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I've been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.
Mitski
Time
Offended
Assume
Would
Felt
Been
Hobby
Anyone
Whether
Asked
Strangely
My personality's very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
Mitski
Personality
Tend
Lot
Very
Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
Mitski
You
Become
About
Objective
More
Both
Outsider
Because
Times
Being
Unhealthy
Much
Useful
Things
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
Music
World
Father
Think
Folk
Folk Music
Obsessed
Countless
Performed
Around
Artists
Influences
Biggest
Them
Who
When you are a minority, it's your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work. 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.
Mitski
Work
Love
You
Blame
Job
Minority
Bend
Bending
Someone
Make
Around
How
Existed
Existing
Lot
Oh
Just
Want
Realise
Them
Then
Really
Your
Hard
Standing
Start
All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
Mitski
Sing
Want
Karaoke
Mariah Carey
I remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in 'Teardrops On My Guitar,' and she was like, 'Isn't this song great?' And everyone was like, 'Who's Taylor Swift?' And now, every time I listen to Taylor Swift, I remember that moment.
Mitski
Music
Time
Great
Song
Guitar
Remember
School
Girl
Year
Every
Every Time
Took
Everyone
High
Some
High School
Brought
Like
She
Course
Junior
Junior Year
Listen
Taylor
Taylor Swift
Moment
Swift
Now
I hate that my opinions are gonna be on record... that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.
Mitski
Hate
Other
Record
Opinions
Going
Artists
Gonna
I don't really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that's closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country.
Mitski
Old
Country
Considered
Folk
Cash
Johnny
Johnny Cash
Like
Closer
Listen
Old Country
Really
Who
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.
Mitski
Work
Art
Musicians
Indie
Making
Still
Same
Same Things
Artists
Might
Really
Pop
Hard
Things
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
Long
First
Few
Crisis
Stayed
Never
Had
New
Major
Identity
Because
Years
York
New York
Being
Place
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.
Mitski
Music
Myself
Writing
School
Wait
Once
Out
Know
How
Get
Did
Just
Wanted
Happened
Realized
Really
Actually
Started
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
Me
People
Before
Way
Identify
Calling
Came
Arrived
Discovered
American
Being
Asian
Asian-American
Specific
Here
Started
Treated
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.
Mitski
Me
Writing
Matter
Made
Important
Think
Way
Objective
More
Look
Subjective
Lot
Up
Trying
Did
Process
Growing
Growing Up
I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
Mitski
Music
Care
About
Make
How
Making
Just
Really
Next
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
Best
Try
Out
Kind
Ability
Seek
Rather
Tend
Environment
Than
Use
Things
It's very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
Mitski
You
Somebody
Says
About
Tempting
Over
Like
Very
Want
The whole 'grunge-girl' comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
Mitski
Music
Easiest
Out
Rushed
Pick
Journalists
Certainly
Whole
Comparisons
Appreciate
When you're young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
Mitski
Time
You
Yourself
Seriously
Young
One Time
Take
Indulge
Most
Get
Being
I really wanted to speak English because I started touring the world, and I wanted to communicate with people directly.
Miyavi
People
Communicate
Speak
World
Directly
Touring
Because
Wanted
Really
English
Started
I feel responsible to make something original as a Japanese artist. There are lots of singers and guitarists, but I feel that on stage it's meaningless to copy something someone has done before.
Miyavi
Before
Stage
Responsible
Someone
Something
Feel
Singers
Make
Lots
Artist
Done
Japanese
Meaningless
Original
Copy
Michael Jackson had a stable vision. He had a strong message, not only pop. People just fainted at his concert.
Miyavi
People
Vision
Strong
Only
Had
He
Message
Concert
His
Michael
Michael Jackson
Jackson
Stable
Just
Pop
I guess you could say I'm cautious, or a coward.
Namie Amuro
You
Coward
Guess
Say
Could
Cautious
I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.
Namie Amuro
Consider
Never
Had
How
Wanted
Chance
I get even more nervous singing when everyone's fallen silent, but I really try to communicate the meaning of the lyrics, and there's people there listening to that, and if they're moved by it, then I'm moved as well.
Namie Amuro
People
Communicate
Try
Listening
Nervous
Singing
Everyone
Lyrics
Silent
More
Well
Fallen
Get
Moved
Meaning
Meaning Of
Then
Really
Even
I think afterall, a promotion video is a piece of work in it's own right.
Namie Amuro
Work
Own
Think
Promotion
Piece
Video
Right
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