Often I’ve had problems automatically bending to a lover’s will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, ‘This is what I love!’
MITSKII’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.
More Mitski Quotes
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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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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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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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I try to be regimented and try to stay healthy and work out and eat properly and go to sleep. And not get too caught up in the industry in my regular life, so I can save all my expression and energy for my art.
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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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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 could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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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 know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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