Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
MITSKII don’t think I’m alone in this: I’m obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment.
More Mitski Quotes
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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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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 don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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Whenever I’ve tried to ingratiate myself to an existing community, I tend to give too much, to become whatever it is they want me to be. It’s something I do automatically – I’ve learnt to immediately adapt.
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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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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 think what’s hard for me is not that I don’t get downtime to chill, it’s that I don’t get time to make music.
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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they’re still musicians, and they’re still making art.
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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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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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Maybe this is a made-up belief to preserve myself, but I do believe that everyone has a purpose, and my purpose is to put out music that means something.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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I try to be regimented and try to stay healthy and work out and eat properly and go to sleep. And not get too caught up in the industry in my regular life, so I can save all my expression and energy for my art.
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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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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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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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I think it’s our responsibility as artists to not only fight for our art but fight for the communities that are the reason we’re able to continue making art, especially since, in Brooklyn’s case, we as artists somehow made it ‘cool’ enough for the bigger money-making industries to start taking over.
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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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When you’re an adult, things mellow out. I think when you’re a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.
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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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I tend to not want to do that anymore. It’s not even that I don’t like it anymore: it’s that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me.
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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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