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.
MITSKII don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
More Mitski Quotes
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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 tend to not want to do that anymore. It’s not even that I don’t like it anymore: it’s that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me.
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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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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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I don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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When someone is a musician – trying to make a living off being a public figure – it’s really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn’t have a personal life.
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It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
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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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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 created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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What’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
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On tour, people know that if they ever ask me what I want to eat, I will always say Asian food. I’m becoming a stereotype, but it’s what I want to eat. I want to eat rice.
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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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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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