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MITSKIWhenever 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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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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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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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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Things seem to take so much longer for me to do. I have to say things 10 times instead of once. I have to knock on 10 different doors instead of two. For everything.
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Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.
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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 know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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I don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
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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 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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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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What I have a problem with is when it becomes another form of tokenization, of shrinking me into a symbol instead of a multilayered, female Asian artist.
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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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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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