I hate that my opinions are gonna be on record… that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.
MITSKII 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.
More Mitski Quotes
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I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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Often I’ve had problems automatically bending to a lover’s will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, ‘This is what I love!’
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I didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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Then you start to realise, ‘Oh, I’m bending a lot,’ and they’re just standing there existing, and I’m bending around them. But you can’t blame them: they don’t realise it; that’s just how they already existed. It’s hard.
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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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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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Whenever I’ve tried to ingratiate myself to an existing community, I tend to give too much, to become whatever it is they want me to be. It’s something I do automatically – I’ve learnt to immediately adapt.
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When you’re young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
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I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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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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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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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 actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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When someone is a musician – trying to make a living off being a public figure – it’s really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn’t have a personal life.
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