I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
MITSKIGrowing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
More Mitski Quotes
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I didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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I think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.
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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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Miyazaki movies were what I was raised on. I’ve watched them since I was very young, and I’ve been greatly shaped by them.
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I understand that, because there are so many musicians, you have to make artists into brands, but I sometimes feel like I have to be some kind of non-human icon in order for people to listen to my music.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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Maybe this is a made-up belief to preserve myself, but I do believe that everyone has a purpose, and my purpose is to put out music that means something.
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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.
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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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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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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 was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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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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