When you’re young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
MITSKII 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.
More Mitski Quotes
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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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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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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.
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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.
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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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 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.
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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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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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I don’t think I’m alone in this: I’m obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment.
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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.
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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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I don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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