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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More Mitski Quotes
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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 have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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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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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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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 was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don’t know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time.
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Things seem to take so much longer for me to do. I have to say things 10 times instead of once. I have to knock on 10 different doors instead of two. For everything.
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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 don’t want to be elitist.
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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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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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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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I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.
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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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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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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 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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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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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 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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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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In my first few years of being in New York, I had a major identity crisis because I’d never stayed in one place for so long.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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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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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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