I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
MITSKIIt would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
More Mitski Quotes
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I don’t want to be elitist.
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When you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
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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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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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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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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
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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’ve been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.
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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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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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I remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in ‘Teardrops On My Guitar,’ and she was like, ‘Isn’t this song great?’ And everyone was like, ‘Who’s Taylor Swift?’ And now, every time I listen to Taylor Swift, I remember that moment.
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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.
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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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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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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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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 didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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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.
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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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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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I discovered I was an Asian American when I arrived in the U.S. I didn’t identify as that before I came here.
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