I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
MITSKII think growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that’s important in the process of writing and trying to look at subjective matter that way.
More Mitski Quotes
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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 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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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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What I have a problem with is when it becomes another form of tokenization, of shrinking me into a symbol instead of a multilayered, female Asian artist.
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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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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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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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Miyazaki movies were what I was raised on. I’ve watched them since I was very young, and I’ve been greatly shaped by them.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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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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I don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
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I hate that my opinions are gonna be on record… that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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I tend to kind of try to use what’s in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don’t already have.
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