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.
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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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 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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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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On tour, I don’t drink, because I don’t think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink whisky.
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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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 could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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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 have a song where I hit some really high notes, I want to try to bring in equivalently low notes somewhere in there.
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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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