Quotes About Experience

In some way I became an angel, and who except me has experienced that in his lifetime?

I feel like I've lived four or five lifetimes.

That connectivity with the audience that I get to enjoy, that's my church. It's not one of ego or anything like, 'I'm on the stage and the lights.' It's just this connectivity, and it's always been that way for me.

I never liked making albums.

All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about.

When you're a coach there's no age limit. It's the results that make you last.

I'm attracted to people who are older rather than younger, and all ages have their potential and limitations.

I always loved acting, but when you get older and you're going through adolescence, the roles are limited.

Well, my relationship to America at the time I left was very limited.

Anytime you're writing stories about a group of people with whom you have limited experience, there's a lot of guesswork.

People always say, 'Write what you know', but I've always found that to be terrible advice. It's quite limiting, what you know.

I am so grateful for my experience at Lincoln Center working to help relocate New York's largest media event - Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week.

If you were to do a line-up of past suitors, it's definitely a very eclectic group, is all I'll say.

I think we should be proud of the fact that our face has got lines, because at least that means we have lived.

All culture, all important culture, is always linked to how people express and experience being alive.

I don't go there any more. I think I've done my time at the Red Lion.

Some of the best things in my life have happened to me because I listened to my mother. And some of the worst things in my life have happened to me because I listened to my mother.

When we were growing up, we listened to all sorts of music, but the first band that really grabbed all of us live was AFI.

After you've had some life experiences and listened to people about their evaluations of you, especially people that you respect, you have no choice but to change.

You go and you see a piece of art; you're looking at it outside of you. When you listen to a song, the singer's voice is being put together in your own head. The effort that you as the listener has is part of the artwork in a sense.

Music has been there for me. Whether good or bad, it's the way that I process experience. As a listener and as a writer.

I speak from experience, and I speak from the heart, and I speak only what I know and what I understand; and on what I don't know and what I don't understand, I'm a good listener.

I have literally played the most interesting parts since I turned 40.

I have literally been working in music just about my entire life.