I don’t really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that’s closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country.
MITSKII think music is supposed to be shared.
More Mitski Quotes
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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 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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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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I try to be regimented and try to stay healthy and work out and eat properly and go to sleep. And not get too caught up in the industry in my regular life, so I can save all my expression and energy for my art.
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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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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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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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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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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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 don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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I was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don’t know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time.
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There’s this myth that women are supposed to compete with each other or something, or we’re supposed to hate each other, and that’s totally not productive.
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