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.
MITSKII think growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that’s important in the process of writing and trying to look at subjective matter that way.
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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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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Whenever someone says they like something about 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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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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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 hate that my opinions are gonna be on record… that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.
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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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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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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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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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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn’t like that for me. I didn’t think of it as a job or a career – it was just something that was constant.
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