When you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
MITSKII don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
More Mitski Quotes
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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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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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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 lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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I really like The Cars. They’re just so over the top and super pop, but I don’t feel guilty. I’m proud of all the music I listen to.
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When someone is a musician – trying to make a living off being a public figure – it’s really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn’t have a personal life.
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I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for 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 have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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I’d always been fascinated by death, which sounds so morbid. Especially being a woman trying to make music, I think there’s a sense that you’re never young enough, or your career is going to end soon.
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I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.
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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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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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