Nas Quotes

I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music.

I’ve aged, but I don’t think I’ve grown up.

I have a lot of growing up to do, or a lot of growing down. I think that's probably more appropriate.

Like everybody, I've had a lot of pain in my life and I'm a work in progress. You must have a true desire to see the world from a different point of view, and that comes with growing up.

I'm 36 years old, and I'm growing up. Little by little.

It was not until my 20s that I began to creep toward maturity.

When you become of age, you can sometimes feel like you have to force maturity. I've been lucky that I didn't feel that I had to try. Growth is something that is going to come, you just need to sit back and let it happen naturally.

I think I've just matured over the years.

By the time I was, you know, 16 years old, I had done a lot of growing up.

I feel like I have grown up.

I do have a bit of empathy I suppose, but it has come more recently as I'm knocking on 30's door and I think I'm getting there.

I think as you get older, you find out more and more about yourself and what you like and what you don't like.

With time, you do get mature.

As I grow older, I like to think I'm getting a little bit more mature.

People grow up by living.

You grow up and share life experiences. That's one of the best parts of this business. You share how you're mellowing out and your new sense of self.

I was a self-centered bore. I was masochistic, and only thought I was happy. When I woke up and said, "there must be something wrong with me", I grew up. Because I never understood myself, how could I hope to understand anyone else? That's why I can truly say that now I can give a woman love for the first time in my life, because I can understand her.

I don't know what I could say specifically, except that everything I've learned as a kid of course must somehow play into what I do now. I think when everything kind of drifted away, I had to go out into the world and learn how to emotionally be okay with all that, which to me was a decades-long process. But also I happened to find my way in life, to find a living, to figure out what I wanted to be when I grow up. I think all of that now probably helps me. It probably gives me more life experience to draw from.

When you get older, you're bothered, or inspired, by other things in life than a girl breaking up with you. Things get heavier as you get older.

I like this idea of becoming fully realised.

One wouldn't want to have the same dilemmas at 50 as one had at 15. And indeed I don't. I have a very different take on life.

I don't know if it's that the scripts are evolving or just that I'm getting older, but the characters become more interesting as you get older because you've lived more life at different stages. You've loved; you've lost; you have more of that journey.

When you're physically growing up, you develop emotionally with that.

I think over the years, being a mother, I've matured in so many ways.

Don't go through life, grow through life.