I didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
MITSKII was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
More Mitski Quotes
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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’ve been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That’s why I’m on social media a lot.
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I’m not an innovator.
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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I’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
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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 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 your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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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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Often I’ve had problems automatically bending to a lover’s will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, ‘This is what I love!’
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