I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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More Mitski Quotes
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My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.
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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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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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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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I couldn’t wait to get out of school, but once I did, I didn’t actually know what I wanted to do with myself. I don’t really know how it happened, but I just started writing music and realized that’s what I wanted to do.
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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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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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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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I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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