Prodigy Quotes

I think when you're in your 20s, going from adolescence to about 24, I think your life is a series of emotional storms that you have to weather. Life is more emotional at that time, and you're less equipped to deal with what life throws at you. I always think that if you can get past 24, than life really starts at that point.

Since I was 15 I've felt kinda like... an old man.

Speaking personally, I didn't think 40 would be a big issue, and I don't think I have issues about age, but there are naturally some big questions that come up at that point in your life.

When you're younger - duh - you don't really have the tools to deal with certain things in your life.

Since I was 13 or 14 I've always felt older than I actually am.

I don't feel like a 27-year-old; I feel I am way mature than someone that age.

I'm 21 years old and I think that I've got a lot of perspective in life.

I certainly could've gone off track many, many times in my youth.

I don't think men figure out what they're really about until they're 25. That's when they start to feel like themselves.

I felt different at 29 because 29, to me, is 30. There are times when I still feel like an actual toddler in a grown-up - well, semi-grown-up - body.

I always felt older than my years, maybe because I was married to someone older.

After adolescence, if one's life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.

I feel like I've matured more musically than I have personally. But I totally embrace what becoming older has to offer. I find the wisdom that comes with each passing year is a trip.

Turning 50 is a little bit of a 'taking stock' moment. I feel probably a little dumber. I don't think I'm as sharp as I was when I was younger, but I'm definitely wiser and less likely to make gigantic blunders of an intellectual, spiritual, emotional or physical type.

I'm definitely a lot more comfortable now in my 40s than in my 30s - that's for sure.

I shall confess at the outset that it was only shortly after the beginning of this century that I entered active life - with a somewhat precocious capacity for involvement.

I always imagined that magically, at some point, I would settle into this very easy and refined sophistication, but it turns out that who you are at eleven is pretty much who you are at 27, so I don't know how much I've learned over the years.

The more you've lived, the more you've experienced, you emotionally know a lot more, especially if you haven't had a regular, straightforward kind of life.

How does anybody change from the time that they're 18 till they're 25? Everything kind of changes. You see the world much differently, and you get your priorities in order a little bit more.

I'm enjoying 40. Old enough to know better, young enough not to care.

When I was 13, I looked like I could play 16, and I wasn't mature enough to play 16.

When I passed the age of 50, I learned how to control my emotions.

I was 30 when I did 'The Matrix.' When you turn 30, your life and your world view change. I remember feeling relieved - it was like I was seeing things in a deeper way.

In the early 2000s, I was going through a lot. I didn't have my head screwed on right. Where I was at as a man, I was still growing up.

I remember when I was 33 or 34, it was devastating because I realized I wasn't a kid anymore. The great thing about 40 was that I really felt like I had life experience and knew what I was doing now.