I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
MITSKII think it’s our responsibility as artists to not only fight for our art but fight for the communities that are the reason we’re able to continue making art, especially since, in Brooklyn’s case, we as artists somehow made it ‘cool’ enough for the bigger money-making industries to start taking over.
More Mitski Quotes
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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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 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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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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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 guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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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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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 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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I’m not an innovator.
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In my first few years of being in New York, I had a major identity crisis because I’d never stayed in one place for so long.
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I’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
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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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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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