I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
MITSKII 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.
More Mitski Quotes
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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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When you’re an adult, things mellow out. I think when you’re a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.
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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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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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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!’
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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.
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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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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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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I’ve been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.
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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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When someone is a musician – trying to make a living off being a public figure – it’s really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn’t have a personal life.
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I took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn’t last; I just learned piano from doing it over and over on my own, because I didn’t have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house.
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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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