I’m punk, but I love gold.
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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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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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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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 actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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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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I hate that my opinions are gonna be on record… that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.
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I couldn’t wait to get out of school, but once I did, I didn’t actually know what I wanted to do with myself. I don’t really know how it happened, but I just started writing music and realized that’s what I wanted to do.
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There’s this myth that women are supposed to compete with each other or something, or we’re supposed to hate each other, and that’s totally not productive.
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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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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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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 think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
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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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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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