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.
MITSKIThe whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
More Mitski Quotes
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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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Miyazaki movies were what I was raised on. I’ve watched them since I was very young, and I’ve been greatly shaped by them.
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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn’t like that for me. I didn’t think of it as a job or a career – it was just something that was constant.
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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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I think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.
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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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Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they’re still musicians, and they’re still making art.
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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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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 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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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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I think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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