All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
MITSKII’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
More Mitski Quotes
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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 tend to not want to do that anymore. It’s not even that I don’t like it anymore: it’s that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me.
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When you love someone and care about them, you want what’s best for them, and it’s always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren’t what’s best for them, how hard you try.
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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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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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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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On tour, people know that if they ever ask me what I want to eat, I will always say Asian food. I’m becoming a stereotype, but it’s what I want to eat. I want to eat rice.
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I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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When you’re doing something you’re not used to, you kind of realize that you’re still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you’re expected to act like an adult, you still haven’t actually grown up.
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I’m not an innovator.
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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 really like The Cars. They’re just so over the top and super pop, but I don’t feel guilty. I’m proud of all the music I listen to.
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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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It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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