Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
MITSKII was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don’t know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time.
More Mitski Quotes
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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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I’m not an innovator.
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I’ve been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.
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I’ve been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That’s why I’m on social media a lot.
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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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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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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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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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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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When you’re doing something you’re not used to, you kind of realize that you’re still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you’re expected to act like an adult, you still haven’t actually grown up.
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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 was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don’t know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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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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I feel like I’ve always wanted to live in one place and stay in one place, but I always end up choosing things that make me travel.
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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 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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I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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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 can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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I think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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I think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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