I’ve been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.
MITSKIIf I have a song where I hit some really high notes, I want to try to bring in equivalently low notes somewhere in there.
More Mitski Quotes
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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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Things seem to take so much longer for me to do. I have to say things 10 times instead of once. I have to knock on 10 different doors instead of two. For everything.
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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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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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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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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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When you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
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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’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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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 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 lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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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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You can be heartbroken about a relationship but also, from it, realize you are you, and you’re okay with who you are or where you came from.
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