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.
MITSKII can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
More Mitski Quotes
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I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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On tour, people know that if they ever ask me what I want to eat, I will always say Asian food. I’m becoming a stereotype, but it’s what I want to eat. I want to eat rice.
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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 was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don’t know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time.
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I’m not an innovator.
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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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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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When you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
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Maybe this is a made-up belief to preserve myself, but I do believe that everyone has a purpose, and my purpose is to put out music that means something.
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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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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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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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I’ve been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That’s why I’m on social media a lot.
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I don’t want to be elitist.
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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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