I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
MITSKII’m punk, but I love gold.
More Mitski Quotes
-
-
It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
MITSKI -
All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
MITSKI -
You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
MITSKI -
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.
MITSKI -
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.
MITSKI -
There’s this myth that women are supposed to compete with each other or something, or we’re supposed to hate each other, and that’s totally not productive.
MITSKI -
I think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.
MITSKI -
Often I’ve had problems automatically bending to a lover’s will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, ‘This is what I love!’
MITSKI -
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.
MITSKI -
If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
MITSKI -
Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
MITSKI -
I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
MITSKI -
I feel like I’ve always wanted to live in one place and stay in one place, but I always end up choosing things that make me travel.
MITSKI -
My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.
MITSKI -
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.
MITSKI