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.
MITSKIWhenever I’ve tried to ingratiate myself to an existing community, I tend to give too much, to become whatever it is they want me to be. It’s something I do automatically – I’ve learnt to immediately adapt.
More Mitski Quotes
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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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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’d always been fascinated by death, which sounds so morbid. Especially being a woman trying to make music, I think there’s a sense that you’re never young enough, or your career is going to end soon.
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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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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.
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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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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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I didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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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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I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
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