I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
MITSKII didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
More Mitski Quotes
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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I tend to not want to do that anymore. It’s not even that I don’t like it anymore: it’s that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me.
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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When you love someone and care about them, you want what’s best for them, and it’s always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren’t what’s best for them, how hard you try.
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As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.
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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.
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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.
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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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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.
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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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.
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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 lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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What’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
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