I don’t really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that’s closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country.
MITSKII can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
More Mitski Quotes
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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I created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’
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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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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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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 could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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I discovered I was an Asian American when I arrived in the U.S. I didn’t identify as that before I came here.
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On one hand, I think it’s very important to talk about race and talk about gender, because if it’s not talked about, then we won’t progress.
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I think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.
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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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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 would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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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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Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.
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