You 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.
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More Mitski Quotes
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I created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’
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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.
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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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When you’re young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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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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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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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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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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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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I don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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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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There’s this myth that women are supposed to compete with each other or something, or we’re supposed to hate each other, and that’s totally not productive.
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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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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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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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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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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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I’m not an innovator.
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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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I really like The Cars. They’re just so over the top and super pop, but I don’t feel guilty. I’m proud of all the music I listen to.
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I’d always been fascinated by death, which sounds so morbid. Especially being a woman trying to make music, I think there’s a sense that you’re never young enough, or your career is going to end soon.
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