I’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
MITSKII 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.
More Mitski Quotes
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I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
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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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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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It’s nice to know there’s a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I’m not the center of the world – in a good way.
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If I have a song where I hit some really high notes, I want to try to bring in equivalently low notes somewhere in there.
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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’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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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 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 could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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I feel like I’ve always wanted to live in one place and stay in one place, but I always end up choosing things that make me travel.
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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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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 was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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