Things seem to take so much longer for me to do. I have to say things 10 times instead of once. I have to knock on 10 different doors instead of two. For everything.
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More Mitski Quotes
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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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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 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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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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What’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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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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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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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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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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I’ve been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.
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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 have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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I’d always been fascinated by death, which sounds so morbid. Especially being a woman trying to make music, I think there’s a sense that you’re never young enough, or your career is going to end soon.
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