Quotes About Experience

I am always so excited to get to know a new audience. My concerts are very personal experiences.

I've done more than a few concerts on the same stage as Nik Kershaw, and I've done a couple with Go West.

The End' eventually became the encore at all of our big concerts. We would play 'Light My Fire,' and there would be this incredible Summer Of Love '60s thing, and then we'd come out and bludgeon them with 'The End.'

When you're listening to club music, there's no reward. The reward isn't, 'Oh, here's the chorus, here's the lyric that makes sense.' You have to enjoy what it is. You have to enjoy that there's no conclusion.

Life is a pre-existing condition.

People in California don't live in a place so much as they do a condition.

It's an actor's job to play all the human conditions - light, dark, and medium.

In my experience, every book you write changes the conditions in which you write the next.

If you are really a good talent, then you need a certain amount of chances to prove yourself and get acclimatised to the conditions.

Sometimes I prefer when I can hear other people conduct my music so I can sit out and actually hear it. When you are in the middle of it, sometimes it's a little bit hard to hear and get the whole effect.

I've always felt that age is just a number - it's not how old or how young you are, it's how you conduct yourself.

Conducting is way over my head.

Conductors start getting good when everybody else retires.

I shaved my head once and learned that I've got, like, a cone head. So I'm never gonna do that again.

All confessions are Odysseys.

There's a confidence and sense of self that comes with age that I didn't anticipate.

The more matches I play, the more confident I get.

You have to do stand-up quite a long time before you learn how to do it well. It was probably years before I was confident enough in stand-up that I was able to talk about the things I wanted to talk about, the way I wanted to talk about them.

I felt confident at 24, but I am a better driver now.

I'm more confident now than I've ever been. As you get older, you have to be.

If you don't take risks, you won't be able to do anything. I was confident I could use my experience to change and improve the way Macau worked.

Our experience making 'Pieces,' all it did was confirm our passion for film making to ourselves. We were having the time of our lives, and we were in love with what we were doing.

All the pain, suffering, love, passion, and conflict have made me what I am.

When I first met Sam Mendes, I was a bit confused and said to him, 'I'm 50 years old. What am I going to do at 50 in a Bond film?'