You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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I tend to not want to do that anymore. It’s not even that I don’t like it anymore: it’s that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me.
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I really like The Cars. They’re just so over the top and super pop, but I don’t feel guilty. I’m proud of all the music I listen to.
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I understand that, because there are so many musicians, you have to make artists into brands, but I sometimes feel like I have to be some kind of non-human icon in order for people to listen to my music.
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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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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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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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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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Miyazaki movies were what I was raised on. I’ve watched them since I was very young, and I’ve been greatly shaped by them.
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I discovered I was an Asian American when I arrived in the U.S. I didn’t identify as that before I came here.
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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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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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