Mitski Quotes

I've never really thought about settling down anywhere. I like to keep moving.

My life is the road, man. I need to keep moving.

I'm a vagabond. I have a suitcase that is ready to go at a moment's notice. The thought of being in one place for a long time, or playing one character for a long time, is terrifying for me.

I've never been one to stay still. I was born a nomad, and I still am a nomad and always will be.

I've lived in England, France, Spain, Portugal and Germany in the '80s. I don't like being settled. It's not really healthy.

Traveling is all very well and good as long as you knew there is a place or person you can call home

I'm kind of addicted to moving.

I've never spent a whole year in one place without leaving.

I think I'll always flutter all over. I'd like to live in different parts of the world - I'd love to live in Tuscany for a few months.

It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or do we ever know, do we ever live where we live, we're always in other places, lost, like sheep.

I'm sort of a gypsy at heart and don't like to stay in one place too long.

In the United States a man builds a house to spend his latter years in it and he sells it before the roof is on. He plants a garden and lets [rents] it just as the trees are coming into bearing. He brings a field into tillage and leaves other men to gather the crops. He embraces a profession and gives it up. He settles in a place which he soon afterward leaves to carry his changeable longings elsewhere. If his private affairs leave him any leisure he instantly plunges into the vortex of politics and if at the end of a year of unremitting labour he finds he has a few days' vacation, his eager curiosity whirls him over the vast extent of the United States, and he will travel fifteen hundred miles in a few days to shake off his happiness.

If I could go anywhere in the world, that place would be home.

I can't stay in one place for too long.

I literally have never lived anywhere longer than two years in my life. I never just stuck anywhere.

I am nomadic by nature.

I go to many different places many times, but I miss my house constantly.

I always miss any kind of constant, especially now that I'm a film-maker who travels all the time. I'm always tempted to go to Catholic churches, although I despise the religion. But you want to go there just because it's the one thing in your life that's never changed.

I have a house, I try to spend as little time in it as possible. Not always easy on the mind and body, but it's how I got myself to 80-plus countries. This kind of routine forces one to reinvent and improvise. The older I get, the more important this is to me.

I don't like being in one place too long. Five days just about does it for me because I have a very low threshold for boredom.

Think of the long trip home. Should we have stayed home and thought of here? Where should we be today?

We lead strange lives, chasing our dreams around from place to place.

Definition of a wanderer: a guy who's always looking beyond.

If travel is searching and home what's been found, I'm not stopping. I'm going hunting.

I love to move around. I'm not a person who likes to stay in the same place all the time.