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.
MITSKII’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
More Mitski Quotes
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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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Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they’re still musicians, and they’re still making art.
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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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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 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 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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It’s nice to know there’s a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I’m not the center of the world – in a good way.
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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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I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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On tour, I don’t drink, because I don’t think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink whisky.
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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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