Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
MITSKII have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
More Mitski Quotes
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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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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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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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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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I was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don’t know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time.
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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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When you’re young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
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I don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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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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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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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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