Mitski Quotes

You just grow up and learn to think instead of just feel.

I've calmed down, certainly, from the days of being 18, but I'm still having a good time.

I've experienced a lot for someone my age that a lot of people will be able to relate to.

I never regret things. It's a really dangerous thing to say, but for anyone involved in the arts, the bad things that happen make for good material. It's not a comfortable truth, but it is true.

As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.

Generally, my writing is influenced by living, by absorbing everything that happens to me and my actions.

You have to attempt to be objective about yourself.

I try not to be overly analytical.

When you're physically growing up, you develop emotionally with that.

One should mature over 20 years.

If a man becomes more mature due to certain episodes in his life, it gives him the opportunity to look at life in a much more deep way. I believe the artist and the man work parallel, with the same feelings, the same soul, the same sensitivity.

As we get more technically driven, the importance of people becomes more than it's ever been before. You have to utilize who you are in your work. Nobody else can do that: nobody else can pull from your background, from your parents, your upbringing, your whole life experience.

I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

As a dad I'm emotionally dedicated but I'm not 'figuring out their life plans'. But of course as I'm telling them about the rights of wrongs I'm thinking back to what I was like at their age.

If I had a talent, it was for looking askew at everything, possibly more than my contemporaries. But I had to really push myself to be a writer.

My writing has a lot to do with who I am, and what my life is like, and my relationships to people.

Some age, others mature.

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.

The more you've lived, the more you've experienced, you emotionally know a lot more, especially if you haven't had a regular, straightforward kind of life.

You know, once you have been through a certain amount of things in life, you definitely grow more comfortable with yourself.

I've grown up a lot, I'm on my own, and I've learned some valuable life lessons.

I am so enriched because so much has happened in my life. The way I can express myself is because of the life I have led. It's only when you experience life can you emote it.

Maybe in my 20s I was a little more lively. But I'm done with that.

Young people understand the world. They should be listened to on matters of politics and world organization. But they know nothing of their own lives.