I know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
MITSKIBeing an outsider makes you a really good writer.
More Mitski Quotes
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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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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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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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When you’re doing something you’re not used to, you kind of realize that you’re still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you’re expected to act like an adult, you still haven’t actually grown up.
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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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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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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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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’m not an innovator.
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As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.
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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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Whenever I’ve tried to ingratiate myself to an existing community, I tend to give too much, to become whatever it is they want me to be. It’s something I do automatically – I’ve learnt to immediately adapt.
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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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