Quotes About Growth

It always makes me sad when someone comments on how much they love my work- from 15 years ago! I don't want to be just another old school guy that fell off.

It's not like my old self - I'm not in character anymore, I'm me. I'm not hiding behind that anymore.

I don't listen to my old stuff very often at all.

One of my rules is: Never listen to your old stuff.

I don't live in the past or focus on making new songs sound like my old stuff; it would be stupid, and I don't think anyone would like it.

I try not to look at my old stuff or my new stuff, really. I'm not a fan.

Sometimes when you're with the same old people, you get the same old thing.

Clinging to old ways and fighting change is not the answer.

You don't get older, you get better.

The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.

I'm just getting older and better.

Getting older is a fact of life.

As far as my mindset changing, I see myself having more empathy in my older age.

My father wasn't around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, 'Why me? Why don't I have a father? Why isn't he around? Why did he leave my mother?' But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, 'I don't know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?'

The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.

The older I get, the more I embrace my own idiosyncrasies.

Getting older is hard.

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can't get bitter, we can't get jaded.

I've had more life experiences than most people that are older than me.

You know how when you get older you actually want to learn? When I went to college, I wasn't as interested in the art history classes as I am now.

When you're older you want to learn from other people.

As I'm getting older, I feel like maybe I need to grow up a bit.

I'd like to think I'm a good guy as I've gotten older.

For me, I remember being 19 and coming out as bi to all of my friends. I'd had girlfriends, and all of these experiences and such, and then, as I got older, I started identifying as gay.