Japanese - Musician | September 27, 1990 -
Tour isn't good for writing, but it's good for inspiration.
Mitski
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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 my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance. 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. All the time. I feel like I'm not taken seriously.
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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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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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What's important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It's very reflective of my ideology.
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There's this myth that women are supposed to compete with each other or something, or we're supposed to hate each other, and that's totally not productive.
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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 have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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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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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 hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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