I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
MITSKIOn tour, I don’t drink, because I don’t think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink whisky.
More Mitski Quotes
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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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I didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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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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I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
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On tour, people know that if they ever ask me what I want to eat, I will always say Asian food. I’m becoming a stereotype, but it’s what I want to eat. I want to eat rice.
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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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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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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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I’m not an innovator.
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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.
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I think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.
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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 you’re young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
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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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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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