All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
MITSKII was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
More Mitski Quotes
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You can be heartbroken about a relationship but also, from it, realize you are you, and you’re okay with who you are or where you came from.
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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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Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they’re still musicians, and they’re still making art.
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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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I was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don’t know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time.
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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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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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I’d always been fascinated by death, which sounds so morbid. Especially being a woman trying to make music, I think there’s a sense that you’re never young enough, or your career is going to end soon.
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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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 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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Maybe 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.
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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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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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I don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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