I tend to kind of try to use what’s in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don’t already have.
MITSKII’ve been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That’s why I’m on social media a lot.
More Mitski Quotes
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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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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 would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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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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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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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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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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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 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 I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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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’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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If I have a song where I hit some really high notes, I want to try to bring in equivalently low notes somewhere in there.
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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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