Robert Palmer Quotes

Before I can face the future, I must first deal with the past.

We would go back and maybe not say that thing to our dad that we said, or maybe be a little nicer to someone who we cared about and had a relationship with when we were young. You know, they're subtle things, but we carry those with us forever. And I think that regret and time travel are intrinsically linked to me.

If I have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over- only living with the mistakes you've made.

Quite often in life, when a tragic event arrives it becomes a springboard for mirroring all other things in one's life that one hasn't come to terms with.

I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.

I realized I've spent all my life creating a past.

I am not the kind of woman who excuses her mistakes while reminding us of what used to be.

For me, 'The Kite Runner' became about a guy who's emotionally shut down because he hasn't confronted his past.

I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you.

Thematically, I like playing with the ideas of stuff that you try to bury, and you think will go away, but instead you carry it with you until it becomes crippling. And sometimes you have to look back and deal with some stuff in order to truly move forward.

I'm pretty sure we've all had a situation where a certain ex or person finds their way back in your life. I've realized that it's not about dwelling over it and overthinking.

Regretting the past does not prevent me from repeating it.

I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.

The past is one evil less and one memory more.

I turned a lot of people off over the past few years, but I know I can still turn out good music and turn everything all around, i've lost some of my best qualities. For that, I am sorry.

Dwelling in the past prevents doing something in the present.

There's mistakes that I have made. Some chances I just threw away. Some roads I never should've taken. Been some signs I didn't see. Hearts that I hurt needlessly. Some wounds that I wish I could have one more chance to mend, but it don't make no difference: The past can't be rewritten. You get the life you're given.

Don't be so bitter about a bad experience from your past that you miss the opportunities in front of you.

Let this be a lesson to us all, said the preacher. You will be walking someday in the dark and the truth will come shining through, and behind you will be a life that you never want to see again.

My past is everything I failed to be.

You can wreck your future running from your past.

Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present.

I wandered through the streets thinking of all the things I might have said and might have done had I been other than I was.

The past was always there, lived inside of you, and it helped to make you who you were. But it had to be placed in perspective. The past could not dominate the future.

The past reflects eternally between two mirrors - the bright mirror of words and deeds, and the dark one, full of things we didn't do or say.