If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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 I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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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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There’s this myth that women are supposed to compete with each other or something, or we’re supposed to hate each other, and that’s totally not productive.
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I don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
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I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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I’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
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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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You can never learn enough about music.
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.
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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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In my first few years of being in New York, I had a major identity crisis because I’d never stayed in one place for so long.
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