I hate that my opinions are gonna be on record… that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.
MITSKIPeople started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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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Sometimes when I perform, and it’s obvious the audience is just there to party, or if I feel a wall between me and the audience, I get existential about it.
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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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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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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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I’ve been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That’s why I’m on social media a lot.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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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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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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I tend to not want to do that anymore. It’s not even that I don’t like it anymore: it’s that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me.
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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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I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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It’s nice to know there’s a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I’m not the center of the world – in a good way.
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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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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