It’s nice to know there’s a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I’m not the center of the world – in a good way.
MITSKIYou can be heartbroken about a relationship but also, from it, realize you are you, and you’re okay with who you are or where you came from.
More Mitski Quotes
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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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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 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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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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My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.
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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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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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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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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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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.
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I think it’s our responsibility as artists to not only fight for our art but fight for the communities that are the reason we’re able to continue making art, especially since, in Brooklyn’s case, we as artists somehow made it ‘cool’ enough for the bigger money-making industries to start taking over.
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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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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 actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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