I’ve been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That’s why I’m on social media a lot.
MITSKIAll I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
More Mitski Quotes
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I know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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When you’re an adult, things mellow out. I think when you’re a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.
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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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I didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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I tend to kind of try to use what’s in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don’t already have.
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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 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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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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It’s nice to know there’s a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I’m not the center of the world – in a good 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 don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
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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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I remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in ‘Teardrops On My Guitar,’ and she was like, ‘Isn’t this song great?’ And everyone was like, ‘Who’s Taylor Swift?’ And now, every time I listen to Taylor Swift, I remember that moment.
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A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn’t like that for me. I didn’t think of it as a job or a career – it was just something that was constant.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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