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.
MITSKII think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.
More Mitski Quotes
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Things seem to take so much longer for me to do. I have to say things 10 times instead of once. I have to knock on 10 different doors instead of two. For everything.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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I think growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that’s important in the process of writing and trying to look at subjective matter that way.
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I think what’s hard for me is not that I don’t get downtime to chill, it’s that I don’t get time to make music.
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Often I’ve had problems automatically bending to a lover’s will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, ‘This is what I love!’
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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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Miyazaki movies were what I was raised on. I’ve watched them since I was very young, and I’ve been greatly shaped by them.
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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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I think it’s our responsibility as artists to not only fight for our art but fight for the communities that are the reason we’re able to continue making art, especially since, in Brooklyn’s case, we as artists somehow made it ‘cool’ enough for the bigger money-making industries to start taking over.
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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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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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When you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
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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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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 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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