My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
MITSKIThere’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.
More Mitski Quotes
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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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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 don’t think I’m alone in this: I’m obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment.
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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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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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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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I created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’
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I feel like I’ve always wanted to live in one place and stay in one place, but I always end up choosing things that make me travel.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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With solo shows, you have complete control over the set list. If you feel like you want to do something different or do a new song, you can just work it in. You can talk to the audience or not talk to the audience. There’s nothing that’s set.
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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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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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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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I don’t want to be elitist.
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