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.
MITSKII don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
More Mitski Quotes
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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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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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I know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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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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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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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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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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Whenever I’ve tried to ingratiate myself to an existing community, I tend to give too much, to become whatever it is they want me to be. It’s something I do automatically – I’ve learnt to immediately adapt.
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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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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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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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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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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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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