I know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
MITSKIYou always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
More Mitski Quotes
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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 was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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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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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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It’s nice to know there’s a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I’m not the center of the world – in a good way.
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Whenever I’ve tried to ingratiate myself to an existing community, I tend to give too much, to become whatever it is they want me to be. It’s something I do automatically – I’ve learnt to immediately adapt.
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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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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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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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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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I don’t really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that’s closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country.
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When you’re an adult, things mellow out. I think when you’re a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.
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Things seem to take so much longer for me to do. I have to say things 10 times instead of once. I have to knock on 10 different doors instead of two. For everything.
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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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