Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
MITSKII have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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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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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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 people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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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 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 would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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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 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 could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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When you love someone and care about them, you want what’s best for them, and it’s always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren’t what’s best for them, how hard you try.
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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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I really like The Cars. They’re just so over the top and super pop, but I don’t feel guilty. I’m proud of all the music I listen to.
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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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