I think growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that’s important in the process of writing and trying to look at subjective matter that way.
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More Mitski Quotes
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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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 didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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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 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.
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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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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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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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You can never learn enough about music.
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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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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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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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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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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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