I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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 have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn’t like that for me. I didn’t think of it as a job or a career – it was just something that was constant.
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You can be heartbroken about a relationship but also, from it, realize you are you, and you’re okay with who you are or where you came from.
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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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I don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
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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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I didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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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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I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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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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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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