Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
MITSKIWhen I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
More Mitski Quotes
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I didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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I’m not an innovator.
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.
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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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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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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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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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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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Maybe this is a made-up belief to preserve myself, but I do believe that everyone has a purpose, and my purpose is to put out music that means something.
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I’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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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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