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.
MITSKII can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
More Mitski Quotes
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On one hand, I think it’s very important to talk about race and talk about gender, because if it’s not talked about, then we won’t progress.
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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 understand that, because there are so many musicians, you have to make artists into brands, but I sometimes feel like I have to be some kind of non-human icon in order for people to listen to my music.
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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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If I have a song where I hit some really high notes, I want to try to bring in equivalently low notes somewhere in there.
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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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I think it’s our responsibility as artists to not only fight for our art but fight for the communities that are the reason we’re able to continue making art, especially since, in Brooklyn’s case, we as artists somehow made it ‘cool’ enough for the bigger money-making industries to start taking over.
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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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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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I don’t want to be elitist.
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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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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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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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