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.
MITSKIYou 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.
More Mitski Quotes
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What I have a problem with is when it becomes another form of tokenization, of shrinking me into a symbol instead of a multilayered, female Asian artist.
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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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I’ve been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That’s why I’m on social media a lot.
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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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’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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When you’re doing something you’re not used to, you kind of realize that you’re still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you’re expected to act like an adult, you still haven’t actually grown up.
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With solo shows, you have complete control over the set list. If you feel like you want to do something different or do a new song, you can just work it in. You can talk to the audience or not talk to the audience. There’s nothing that’s set.
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You can never learn enough about music.
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I don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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Miyazaki movies were what I was raised on. I’ve watched them since I was very young, and I’ve been greatly shaped by them.
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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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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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I don’t want to be elitist.
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