Mitski Quotes

I've very aware of my rootlessness.

When I was growing up, I never felt that I belonged anywhere because we never lived in a house for more than three months. That's all I knew, and that's why I don't really belong anywhere.

I belong nowhere and to no one.

There was no time when I lived anywhere longer than two years. I was always a social outcast. Maybe I didn't care what people thought because I was like, 'Well, I probably won't stick around here for too long.'

I was realizing that I didn't have a home. I didn't really feel at home in one place.

I feel like a visitor just about everywhere.

For many years, I didn't have a home.

When I look at my own work, I see love, loss, and loneliness. Part of it might be that I was an army brat. I moved around all the time. There was a sense of nothing being permanent.

I didn't have just one place where I could say, 'That's my home.'

I just never felt like I belonged anywhere. I always had a stick with a little knapsack attached.

It was difficult when I was very young because I was so separated from my family. When I was at school or acting in a play, I felt very much part of something, and then it would always change, and I would be by myself.

Sometimes I feel very alone. I am a bit of a nomad. Many people in sort of emerging countries, emerging economies, find themselves displaced. So there is that sense, and so I'm part of a whole, I think, group of displaced people.

I have always felt a little homeless. It's a strange thing.

I come from no country, from no city, no tribe. I am the son of the road... all tongues and all prayers belong to me. But I belong to none of them.

I moved around 13 different times before I was in fifth grade, not having money, not having a lot of friends.

Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.

I never felt truly at home in Switzerland.

I don't feel that I belong anywhere. Or rather, if there's a place I belong, I don't feel I'm there.

I don't even know how it is to have a home. I feel like an orphan or something.

I don't really feel like I belong anywhere.

The actual thought of not really having a home was, for me, very depressing, and it was something that I was dealing with for quite some time.

I actually didn't think there was that many people out there who knew what it's like to not really have a home or have that home in one place.

Living with the notion that you might never have a permanent spot in the world is really quite a powerful metaphor.

I moved schools seven or eight times, but I never thought of it as a problem. I didn't become attached to people.

When you've moved 13 times, you lose track of where you're from.