Mitski Quotes

Ultimately, if I'm really moved by something, it's going to go on the record and that's that.

Whenever I can squeeze it in, I'm writing and recording.

I usually know the general emotion of a song, or the general feeling of it, and then I think I just get so excited by the act of recording. I love that process so much that I feel like if I knew exactly what I wanted I'd arrive at something too soon.

All my writing takes place during the recording of the master tapes. I never do have songs when I start up an album. I actually write them while I record.

Usually, I really only look at any one particular album at a time when I'm making it. I've never really sat and looked at the journey through all of my albums to see if I could find a thread through them.

I never did albums fully at DFA; I always would go someplace else so I wasn't making a record in my office, basically.

I don't make demos. I don't have the interest or the energy or the time. Demos are something you do in the early stages of your career, but when you get going, you just go in and record the song.

For me, it's always just about playing the song and recording it and giving it what it needs as a song.

Normally doing an album you go from track to track and go, 'Let's not work on this one today, let's go work on the other one,' and I think you tend to get more self-indulgent that way.

When you're making music, you don't look at what's going on in the studio next to you.

I really write at home on my own, and the demos themselves are very similar to the final recordings in a lots of ways.

It takes so much energy and time to make one song perfect.

The first record we made, we recorded and mixed in a day. The second record was recorded and mixed in a week. The third was recorded and mixed in a month, and 'New Wave' was mixed and recorded in six months. It was an epic project.

When you record an album in six days, you don't have time to work out a lot of stuff.

With 'Defenders,' we had some very barebones ideas, but the bulk of it came together very quickly over in Ibiza. The main thing I like about that record, looking back on it now, is the change in the texture of the production from 'Screaming For Vengeance.'

I started rapping at the age of 12. That's when I wrote my first song, but I was more intrigued on learning how the recording process works: how do you create music and what materials I needed. So I educated myself musically so that I could focus on creating my own.

I had a project called 'Cover Art,' which was the first project I did under the new name Anderson .Paak. I went through this process where I was recording new music for about six months straight.

For us, we make a song, and if we like it, it goes on a record.

When I make albums, I do a lot of songwriting but not necessarily a whole album.

Rap isn't that time-consuming for me, compared to an ordinary artist. I do not stay in the studio all day.

You never have any idea where your movie's going to go when you're shooting - you're in this little bubble.

When you're recording a ninth studio album, you can't fail. You don't really have any fears. You just make the best record that you like. You hope your fans are gonna like it, but if they don't, they have eight other ones to listen to.

I have worked with a lot of people, all very different creatives, helping me hone my craft and discover myself as an artist and the record I want to make. It's such an amazing process seeing and hearing the tracks that people could eventually be listening to on my debut album!

For the first 12 years of recording I would finish the album, then on the day it came out I'd never hear the songs again.

I like to record. It's very intense.