Quotes About Perspective

My opinion of covers is that unless you're going to change and take a cover in a new direction, it's gonna get put up against the old one, and you're gonna lose. It's like, which would you rather listen to? The Righteous Brothers' 'Loving Feeling' or Hall and Oates' 'Loving Feeling?'

Whenever anyone calls me 'The new J..K. Rowling,' I think, 'What's wrong with the old one?'

Some old people, they remember that they used to play clarinet, and they remember the squeaks of the clarinet. But I don't play like that.

Old people are often impatient, but for what?

I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work, it's no longer his... I just see what people make of it.

My dad was an old school guy, but my mom was very much like 'you feel what you need to feel.'

I watch old school film so that I can learn so much that I just sort of miss all the new stuff.

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.

My sister is three years older and super foxy, and I always looked like a 50 year old woman.

I think I'm very old-fashioned.

The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show.

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.

Why is it that when we get older, we get more fearful?

I think you go nuts when you get older.

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

You feel a little older in the morning. By noon I feel about 55.

When you're young, it's hard to lead people that are older than you.

I really love fashion, but I feel like the older I get, the more I am drawn to the basic things in my daily life because everything else is so goofy and crazy.

When people get older, they get bitter or get cute.

I don't feel any older now than when I was 70.

As you get older, you see the world at a different angle, maybe more cynically, but I just bury my anger.