Karl Lagerfeld Quotes

A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself. When you are a child your vessel is not yet full;so you care for nothing but your own affairs. When you grow up, your vessel overflows; and you are a politician, a philosopher, or an explorer and adventurer. In old age the vessel dries up: there is no overflow: you are a child again.

I still feel like I have a lot of growing up to do 'til I find the voice. Everybody has their own voice and their own thing they want to say to the world.

My music is 100-percent me, so it's just who I developed into as a woman. I feel really grateful that I waited until I did because I feel like I really found who I was by doing that.

I can't imagine, as a human being, not being able to grow.

I think the teenage sides of myself have informed my adult self.

I don't think naturally I tend toward anything that's really distinctly branded as adult. I feel like I sort of write for myself as I would've been at 12 or 13 years old.

Meek young men grow up in colleges and believe it is their duty to accept the views which books have given, and grow up slaves.

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to see that the girl of nineteen who thought herself a genius was only an unusual girl writing her heart out.

With every project you do, you bring out a part of yourself, and it seems to be quite a good way of expanding a person.

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

It's not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.

You grow and you change, or at least you think you do, but you're kind of the same.

I don't want to put a pause on the rest of my life; I'm really enjoying getting older and the wisdom that comes from that.

I think this movie, 'Moneyball,' symbolizes becoming a man for me, and I think my character becomes a man. It's important to me: I'm becoming a man. I'm taking my life seriously. I'm taking my acting really seriously, and it's important for me to play adults. It's important for me to change and develop as I get older.

Kids don't shuffle along in unison on the road to maturity. They slouch toward adulthood at an uneven, highly individual pace.

I've certainly had a lot of experiences in my life where I was much too self-centered.

I'm not changing to the point where suddenly I wear floor-length skirts and start playing the violin; I'm just growing up a little bit, I guess.

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.

The songs are definitely all about me. I am my favourite subject.

'Joy' to me is a reflection of the life experiences that I've had throughout the first record and kind of having some time and a hiatus. It's just like all of those experiences that I had during that period - that growing up period.

I began working quite young, writing, growing, maturing, always striving to top myself - to make people laugh hard at things they know and believe deep in their hearts to be true.

I deliberately went to boarding school. It was my choice. My mum was abroad and I wanted to wean myself off being dependent. It was a very important time for me to be able to create my own individual, independent life; just as a way of growing up.