I think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.
MITSKII always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
More Mitski Quotes
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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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I don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
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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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I’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
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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 know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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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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Sometimes when I perform, and it’s obvious the audience is just there to party, or if I feel a wall between me and the audience, I get existential about it.
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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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I discovered I was an Asian American when I arrived in the U.S. I didn’t identify as that before I came here.
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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I don’t want to be elitist.
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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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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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