I’m not an innovator.
MITSKIThings 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.
More Mitski Quotes
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When you’re an adult, things mellow out. I think when you’re a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.
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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 actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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I tend to kind of try to use what’s in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don’t already have.
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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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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn’t like that for me. I didn’t think of it as a job or a career – it was just something that was constant.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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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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When someone is a musician – trying to make a living off being a public figure – it’s really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn’t have a personal life.
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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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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