You can be heartbroken about a relationship but also, from it, realize you are you, and you’re okay with who you are or where you came from.
MITSKIIf I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
More Mitski Quotes
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I feel like I’ve always wanted to live in one place and stay in one place, but I always end up choosing things that make me travel.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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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 have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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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 have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.
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What I have a problem with is when it becomes another form of tokenization, of shrinking me into a symbol instead of a multilayered, female Asian artist.
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I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
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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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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 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 know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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