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.
MITSKII 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.
More Mitski Quotes
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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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When someone is a musician – trying to make a living off being a public figure – it’s really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn’t have a personal life.
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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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I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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Then you start to realise, ‘Oh, I’m bending a lot,’ and they’re just standing there existing, and I’m bending around them. But you can’t blame them: they don’t realise it; that’s just how they already existed. It’s hard.
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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 hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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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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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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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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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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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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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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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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On one hand, I think it’s very important to talk about race and talk about gender, because if it’s not talked about, then we won’t progress.
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