Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
MITSKITour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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When you’re doing something you’re not used to, you kind of realize that you’re still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you’re expected to act like an adult, you still haven’t actually grown up.
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I think what’s hard for me is not that I don’t get downtime to chill, it’s that I don’t get time to make music.
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My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.
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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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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 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 could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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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 have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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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 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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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 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 hate that my opinions are gonna be on record… that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.
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Then you start to realise, ‘Oh, I’m bending a lot,’ and they’re just standing there existing, and I’m bending around them. But you can’t blame them: they don’t realise it; that’s just how they already existed. It’s hard.
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