I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
MITSKII took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn’t last; I just learned piano from doing it over and over on my own, because I didn’t have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house.
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 go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.
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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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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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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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I didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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I don’t want to be elitist.
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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 think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.
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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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