Vince Gill Quotes

Knowing what I know now and what I have been through, would I do it the same? I look at the alternative - a very simple life. It would have been nice to have a simple life.

We're all reflections of the lives we lead.

I think we all wish we could erase some dark times in our lives. But all of life's experiences, bad and good make you who you are. Erasing any of life's experiences would be a great mistake.

You can't start changing things in your past. Everyone has challenges and lessons to learn - we wouldn't be who we are without them. I certainly wouldn't be who I am.

I believe that every life is a collection of individual 'journey stories.'

To me, people's lives and loves are entwined with their characters, natures and circumstances. I regard all general advice with skepticism.

People say, 'What if your name was Niki Smith?' Well, if Niki Smith lived the life I've lived, it would have great bearing.

You never know what's going to happen in your life, and you never know what's going to happen in someone else's life either.

The background - your own history - is way more important than what you can achieve as a professional.

I think the whole of people's psychology and where they are in life interests me, and the decisions you make that take you on particular journeys to different places.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

When I got to 40 or so... I had the sense when I looked back over my life I would actually see a mess of decisions, a few of which I had thought about, some of which I had sort of stumbled on, and many that I had no control over whatsoever.

By definition, an actor's life is a recipe for regret. There are always roads you could have taken. But I've lived long enough to realise that each road has its own rewards.

I think everything I have done in my life, my reasons at the time were right no matter how things worked out.

We're constantly, as human beings, trying to understand why we do what we do and how we got to wherever we find ourselves today. Sometimes it takes a lot of time to look back and go, 'I can't believe I spent one day with that person, much less two years.'

Nobody wants to get rid of their life experiences - you are who you are because of them, no matter if they're good or bad.

At the end of the day, you go through different paths in the league. I wouldn't change anything about it.

Back in your twenties you're discovering your boundaries in life, whether it's with relationships or friendships and partying.

I think everyone in their 30s looks back at their 20s and thinks, 'Oh God, if I'd just done this and this, and not done that.'

Everybody lives their lives differently. They have a different perspective. They've been through different things in love. They've cried about different things.

I'd like to thank everybody who ever punched or kissed me in my life and everybody who I ever punched or kissed.

That's the good part of having my past follow me, is that sometimes some of that stuff can help.

Your debut record, in terms of lyrical content, can be about the last couple of years of your life obviously, but your first record into the world is also about everything else that you've ever experienced in your life until that moment.

So much of who we are is where we have been.

I have come to an odd belief, which is that we don't make decisions so much as the decisions make us. The goal of a decision isn't just to find the path forward, but to become someone entirely different than who we might have been as a function of the path we take.