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.
MITSKIWhen 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.
More Mitski Quotes
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I don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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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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I tend to not want to do that anymore. It’s not even that I don’t like it anymore: it’s that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me.
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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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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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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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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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I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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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 lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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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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I tend to kind of try to use what’s in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don’t already have.
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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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