I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
MITSKIWhen I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
More Mitski Quotes
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When you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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I tend to kind of try to use what’s in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don’t already have.
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I think what’s hard for me is not that I don’t get downtime to chill, it’s that I don’t get time to make music.
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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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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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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 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’m not an innovator.
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When you’re an adult, things mellow out. I think when you’re a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.
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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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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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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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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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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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