If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
MITSKII think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
More Mitski Quotes
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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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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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With solo shows, you have complete control over the set list. If you feel like you want to do something different or do a new song, you can just work it in. You can talk to the audience or not talk to the audience. There’s nothing that’s set.
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Sometimes when I perform, and it’s obvious the audience is just there to party, or if I feel a wall between me and the audience, I get existential about it.
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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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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 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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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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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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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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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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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.
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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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You can never learn enough about music.
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