I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
MITSKII didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
More Mitski Quotes
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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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 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 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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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 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’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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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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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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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 can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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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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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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