I 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.
MITSKIMaybe this is a made-up belief to preserve myself, but I do believe that everyone has a purpose, and my purpose is to put out music that means something.
More Mitski Quotes
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I don’t think I’m alone in this: I’m obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment.
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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 was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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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 wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.
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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 think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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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 think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
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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 couldn’t wait to get out of school, but once I did, I didn’t actually know what I wanted to do with myself. I don’t really know how it happened, but I just started writing music and realized that’s what I wanted to do.
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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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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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