If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
MITSKII’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
More Mitski Quotes
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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 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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I don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
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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 don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
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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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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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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 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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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 this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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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’d always been fascinated by death, which sounds so morbid. Especially being a woman trying to make music, I think there’s a sense that you’re never young enough, or your career is going to end soon.
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I don’t want to be elitist.
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I discovered I was an Asian American when I arrived in the U.S. I didn’t identify as that before I came here.
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