Mitski Quotes

When you're an adult, things mellow out. I think when you're a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.

I know that I'm inadequate, but I never thought that at seventeen. I thought I was doing the best I could. I thought I was being idealistic.

In my younger years my dedication may have expressed itself egotistically.

I can easily connect with the prepubescent dork I spent much of my life being.

When I left school I was full of angst, like any teenager, and I channeled it all into comedy.

My cares come from a very selfish place 'cause in reality I'm young, and I haven't had the experience to be mature yet.

People forget that when you're 16, you're probably more serious than you'll ever be again. You think seriously about the big questions.

I am not in any hurry to grow up.

I'm only realizing now that I was a child actress because I always took myself so seriously.

I wasn't an easy, happy-go-lucky girl because I used to think about everything so much, and I think I probably still do.

I just like being a kid. I enjoy it, I don't want to grow up.

I'm just a young kid.

The guys who spend their time brooding in their younger years either lighten up or go away.

We all are so serious when we are younger.

The first album was a coming-of-age album - I don't like the phrase, but when you listen to it, you can tell I was having a hard time, that I wasn't socially relating to people.

Some of my songs are positive and stuff, but some are about staring down at the ground and obsessing about stupid things, and it is teenage in a way.

I've been writing songs since I was a teenager, so one kind of song I've written a lot is about, I don't know, teen angst feelings - feeling unsure of yourself and immature.

They keep coming up new all the time - things to perplex you, you know. You settle one question and there's another right after. There are so many things to be thought over and decided when you're beginning to grow up. It keeps me busy all the time thinking them over and deciding what's right. It's a serious thing to grow up, isn't it, Marilla?

Because I was permanently confused, dissatisfied, unhappy, tormented by inadequacy, driven by wanting towards every kind of impossible future, the attitude of mind described by 'tolerantly amused eyes' was years away from me. I don't think I really saw people then, except as appendages to my needs. It's only now, looking back, that I understood, but at the time I lived in a brilliantly lit haze, shifting and flickering according to my changing desires. Of course, that is only a description of being young.

No one's serious at seventeen.

i was perhaps an egotist in youth, but i soon found it made me morbid to think too much about myself

It seems that one moment I was this little kid only caring about animals and flowers and stuff, and then the next minute I was this raging stew of hormones. I don't know if you've ever been a raging stew of anything, but I wouldn't particularly recommend it.

He thought about himself and to the young that always brings sadness.

Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.

During adolescence imagination is boundless. The urge toward self-perfection is at its peak. And with all their self- absorption and personalized dreams of glory, youth are in pursuit of something larger than personal passions, some values or ideals to which they might attach their imaginations.