“I remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and so...” — Mitski Quote

“I remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in 'Teardrops On My Guitar,' and she was like, 'Isn't this song great?' And everyone was like, 'Who's Taylor Swift?' And now, every time I listen to Taylor Swift, I remember that moment.”

“I don't think 'bleak' is a bad thing.”

“I always have strong urges to sabotage myself. Whenever someone says they like something about my music, 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.”

“I was brought up in Glasgow, and I was a big Celtic follower.”

“You're brought up not to hit girls, that it's the worst sin, and that's what I do. But you know, gender is the last thing I think about when I'm fighting. It's the one situation where I don't think of gender at all.”

“The Olympics brought a lot of development to Beijing, but I don't see that there have been any changes to human rights as a result of the Olympics.”