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.
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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As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.
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I really like The Cars. They’re just so over the top and super pop, but I don’t feel guilty. I’m proud of all the music I listen to.
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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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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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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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I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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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 really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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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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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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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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Then you start to realise, ‘Oh, I’m bending a lot,’ and they’re just standing there existing, and I’m bending around them. But you can’t blame them: they don’t realise it; that’s just how they already existed. It’s hard.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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