You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
MITSKII can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
More Mitski Quotes
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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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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.
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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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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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I think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.
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What’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
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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 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.
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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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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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On one hand, I think it’s very important to talk about race and talk about gender, because if it’s not talked about, then we won’t progress.
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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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