Mark Kozelek Quotes

If you are 20 you don't have the same life experiences as at 25.

You obviously have a different perspective on life when you're 20 compared to when you're 16.

It's funny how you get a bit older and become more accepting of things. When you're in your twenties, you're skeptical of everything. I definitely felt like that.

Even the people I surround myself with... are wiser, a little bit older than me, where before, all my boyfriends were younger.

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

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

The feelings we all have as 50-year-olds are different than the feelings we all have as 30-year-olds. That informs everything we do.

I played with Eddy Curry twice and in New York, the second time, he asked, 'Who are you?' My first to fourth year I was a different person. I started thinking big picture, that maybe I don't have all the answers.

We're both getting older, our children are starting to leave home. But I can say that I'm just as passionate a songwriter now in my 50s as I was in my 20s. But instead of talking about the general kind of angst that I felt as a teenager, I'm writing about more specific issues.

The 18-year-old me wouldn't understand the 43-year-old me because then I wanted to travel and see the world. But I love being home.

Getting into your 30s, you don't feel the same as in your early 20s.

When I was young, I lived like an old woman, and when I got old, I had to live like a young person.

You can't sing about the same things as you did when you were 20; it would be ridiculous to sing about, I don't know, being in the quad. You can't really write about mortgage payments or stuff like that... but you can talk about 'let's make the world a better place.'

The romantic idealism of my youth has been replaced with realism and hard work at what I love.

You either mellow at 30, or your head explodes - take your choice.

Recently I read the stories I wrote in my early 20s, to put in a volume. And here is this brittle young woman, writing about marriage as, not the worst thing, but the most boring thing that could happen to a person. Now I think I was wrong. I like to be proven wrong.

Its not age as much as the experiences I have had.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

When I was 25, people used to say to me that having kids would change you, and I'd roll my eyes.

People are different when they're 30 than they are when they're 16.

I don't want to be 25 again.

I like growing up; I feel like I have an old soul. I like the age to match as much as it can.

I think age is just something written down on a piece of paper. I mean, you come across 20-year-olds who are like old people sometimes. I've never taken much account of age throughout my life - my own or anyone else's.

When I had a kid and I went through my drama and situation, I respected my father more because it kinda made me understand what he went through with me.

Growing old is not growing up.