I’m not an innovator.
MITSKII’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
More Mitski Quotes
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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I don’t think I’m alone in this: I’m obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment.
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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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Whenever I’ve tried to ingratiate myself to an existing community, I tend to give too much, to become whatever it is they want me to be. It’s something I do automatically – I’ve learnt to immediately adapt.
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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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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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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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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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I think what’s hard for me is not that I don’t get downtime to chill, it’s that I don’t get time to make music.
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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 the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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