I’m not an innovator.
MITSKII really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
More Mitski Quotes
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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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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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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 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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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 actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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What’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
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I’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
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When you’re young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
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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 was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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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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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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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 don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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