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.
MITSKII 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.
More Mitski Quotes
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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Maybe this is a made-up belief to preserve myself, but I do believe that everyone has a purpose, and my purpose is to put out music that means something.
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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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It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
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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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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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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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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 guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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I took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn’t last; I just learned piano from doing it over and over on my own, because I didn’t have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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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 can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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