Sometimes when I perform, and it’s obvious the audience is just there to party, or if I feel a wall between me and the audience, I get existential about it.
MITSKII discovered I was an Asian American when I arrived in the U.S. I didn’t identify as that before I came here.
More Mitski Quotes
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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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I hate that my opinions are gonna be on record… that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.
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I know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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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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I think what’s hard for me is not that I don’t get downtime to chill, it’s that I don’t get time to make music.
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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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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 so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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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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I’d always been fascinated by death, which sounds so morbid. Especially being a woman trying to make music, I think there’s a sense that you’re never young enough, or your career is going to end soon.
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I really like The Cars. They’re just so over the top and super pop, but I don’t feel guilty. I’m proud of all the music I listen to.
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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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