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.
MITSKII don’t want to be elitist.
More Mitski Quotes
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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 think music is supposed to be shared.
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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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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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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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I don’t want to be elitist.
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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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You can be heartbroken about a relationship but also, from it, realize you are you, and you’re okay with who you are or where you came from.
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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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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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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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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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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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