Mitski Quotes

I don't think I really realized what being an adult and being a real grownup was until I was at least twenty-eight.

There are no grown-ups. We suspect this when we are younger, but can confirm it only once we are the ones writing books and attending parent-teacher conferences. Everyone is winging it, some just do it more confidently.

When I was 21 I think I thought I was 31. I was always kind of doing the right thing, and it wasn't until my late twenties that I became just a completely wild asshole. So I should've had that out of my system already and I was too busy being a grown-up.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

I think I am an adult.

I'm totally growing up.

One should mature over 20 years.

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

You gotta mature, you know.

It changed me more than anything else. You don't want to get to that place where you're the adult and you're palpably in the next generation. And, this shoved me into that.

A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does.

I think I'm finally growing up - and about time.

I would go back to school after working on a movie, and it didn't feel I missed anything, like I had been away. I did mature pretty quickly, though, but I still sound pretty immature sometimes.

I think in the experience of growing up and realizing who you are, what your place in the world is can be quite scary.

I think, for many teens, a fundamental fact of the teenage experience is that you're in between this childlike state, in which you're told you're completely unqualified for just about anything in the adult world, and this adult world, where you're being told you have to be responsible, and you're just trying to figure out where you stand.

It's very bizarre to me to now really be a grown-up. I kind of can't believe that I'm there because I certainly don't feel that way a lot of the time.

There's a shift and a change in how we've matured to becoming adults. 'Elevator Girl' represents our maturity.

Growing up is mostly the process of having to acknowledge the differences between your world and the whole world.

I had to grow up, but I think I've grown up a lot. I think I'm handling myself well.

I’ve aged, but I don’t think I’ve grown up.

Maturity comes not with age but with the acceptance of responsibility. You are only young once but immaturity can last a lifetime!

I get a little scared of words like maturity.

When I became a mature woman, I put both feet firmly on the side of maturity.

I feel like I'm 18, with the maturity level of like a 14-year-old. I'm still the same goofball; I'm still in college, as far as I'm concerned.

I still feel like I haven't grown up.