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.
MITSKII 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.
More Mitski Quotes
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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 have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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I 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.
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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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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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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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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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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.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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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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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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