Michelle Branch Quotes

I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.

I started in '69 to have psychoanalysis, and I realised very soon that I was changing, and that's I think why my movies were changing. They became much more open to dialogue.

I always thought of myself as a later bloomer, so I like some of my work more later than earlier.

I've been trying to grow up some myself, in my heart, and it's happening quick and I feel good about it, and I want that to come out in the music.

I don't care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.

If you want to be honest with yourself, you have to take criticism, even if you attract adverse comments from others.

When someone praises me, I get wary. If someone has something negative to say, I invite them over for a long chat. They are important for my growth as an actor.

If I can understand criticism, I take it very seriously. But it's a process; it doesn't happen overnight.

You think you're developing and getting better and then you see something you did years ago. Looking at your early work.. sometimes it has a depth that surprises you.

I don't want to compare myself to Picasso, but he had four or five periods in his life. Any good artist grows and changes and matures.

I think, you know, when you're a teenager, sometimes your emotions are a little bit more drastic than maybe when you're in your 20s. You sort of level out a little bit.

I'm not a boy now. I'm a man, I hope. I hope I've had my artistic bar mitzvah somewhere.

I have learned to watch myself and give myself constructive criticism. Although I have to cover my face and peek sometimes!

People tend to scare you pointing out your shortfalls. If you voluntarily admit your faults, then people won't have anything to point out.

Beyond just writing about falling in love and out of love and wanting to do certain things and going out and partying and all the things that I grew up writing about, I want to write about deeper things.

At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.

Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don't grow up.

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

I'm not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.

Every time I'd get a critique or some redirection, I'd always just take it very personally. Now I have no problem with it.

You're seeing me develop, not only as a filmmaker if you've seen my earlier films, but you're seeing me kind of learn how to be a human, how my philosophy has evolved.

'South Pacific' - I really learned a lot. I swear I like to say that during 'South Pacific,' I went from being a girl to being a woman.

As a teenager, I put a lot of pressure on myself, and a lot of that, for me, was about finding a moral high ground. As I've grown up, I've decided to abandon that because it made me judgmental and also stressed me out.

It's an artist's choice to listen to criticism or not. I'm very sensitive to criticism.

One of the greatest things about being an artist is, as you get older, if you keep working hard in relationship to what you want the world to be and how you want it to become, there is a history of interesting growth that resonates with different moments in your life.