Sara Teasdale Quotes

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.

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

I suppose I was waiting until I was old enough to have some sort of experience to sing about. When you're young, it's hard to sing the blues. Nobody believes you.

How can you sing a line like, 'I've fallen out of love' when you're 18? You need to experience something of life before you can sing it.

I'm OK being the veteran, but I'm still just a kid.

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

I think that as you get older, you mellow out a lot more. Having been through the ups and downs in life, I feel more qualified to play the blues.

I know you think that when you're 35, 45, 55, you'll be different. But I'm going to let you in on a bit of a secret. You're going to look different, and your life is going to be different, but in your head you'll always be that 16-year-old girl.

If you live long enough, you'll experience everything.

There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.

People think, because we're young, we aren't complex, but that's not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

I thought I was an old soul, and that I knew life, but then starting the real life, I figured I am completely new.

The work gets more difficult as you get older. You learn more and you gather more experiences, there is deeper pain and higher highs.

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.

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

Some people say, I'd give anything to be 30 again. Well, I really wouldn't. I didn't enjoy being 30.

Get this in mind early: We never grow up.

Oh my gosh, I'd give so much advice to a younger version of myself. I would say it really does get better as you get older. The things that mean so much, the things that seem like, you know, it's going to cause the end of the world, are all things that I've already forgotten.

When you're in an industry where you're forced to grow up so quickly, part of you never grows up, and that's a good thing.

When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.

When we're 16, we have lots of heavy thoughts. And these are the heavy thoughts, where, when we're in our 30s, we look at 16-year olds and sort of scorn it.

People say you become more cynical as you get older. That hasn't been my experience.

The feelings we all have as 50-year-olds are different than the feelings we all have as 30-year-olds. That informs everything we do.

A lot of people think teenagers haven't gone through anything in their lives - they're not even 20 years old yet. But a twenty-something can go through the same type of experience or heartbreak that a 50-year-old can go through, so why does age matter?

I had to have experience, you know what I mean? Because I've been doing this since I was 14... I couldn't write about anything at 14. I had to live some life. I definitely lived some life.