Mitski

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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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've been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.

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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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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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It's very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.

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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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When you love someone and care about them, you want what's best for them, and it's always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren't what's best for them, how hard you try.

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Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.

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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself. Whenever someone says they like something about my music, 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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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.

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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.

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Quotes by Mitski