When you’re young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
MITSKIYou can be heartbroken about a relationship but also, from it, realize you are you, and you’re okay with who you are or where you came from.
More Mitski Quotes
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Whenever I’ve tried to ingratiate myself to an existing community, I tend to give too much, to become whatever it is they want me to be. It’s something I do automatically – I’ve learnt to immediately adapt.
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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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I discovered I was an Asian American when I arrived in the U.S. I didn’t identify as that before I came here.
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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 hate that my opinions are gonna be on record… that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.
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Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.
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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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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.
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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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I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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Things seem to take so much longer for me to do. I have to say things 10 times instead of once. I have to knock on 10 different doors instead of two. For everything.
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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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