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.
MITSKIOn 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.
More Mitski Quotes
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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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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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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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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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I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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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 was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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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 hate that my opinions are gonna be on record… that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.
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I understand that, because there are so many musicians, you have to make artists into brands, but I sometimes feel like I have to be some kind of non-human icon in order for people to listen to my music.
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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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Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.
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My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.
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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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