I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
MITSKII would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
More Mitski Quotes
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It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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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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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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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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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 are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
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I’ve been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.
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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 I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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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’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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On tour, I don’t drink, because I don’t think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink whisky.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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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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