Gregory Porter Quotes

I suppose I was waiting until I was old enough to have some sort of experience to sing about. When you're young, it's hard to sing the blues. Nobody believes you.

When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.

People think, because we're young, we aren't complex, but that's not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.

A lot of people think teenagers haven't gone through anything in their lives - they're not even 20 years old yet. But a twenty-something can go through the same type of experience or heartbreak that a 50-year-old can go through, so why does age matter?

I'm OK being the veteran, but I'm still just a kid.

I think that as you get older, you mellow out a lot more. Having been through the ups and downs in life, I feel more qualified to play the blues.

I don't know if it's that the scripts are evolving or just that I'm getting older, but the characters become more interesting as you get older because you've lived more life at different stages. You've loved; you've lost; you have more of that journey.

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

I thought I was an old soul, and that I knew life, but then starting the real life, I figured I am completely new.

The work gets more difficult as you get older. You learn more and you gather more experiences, there is deeper pain and higher highs.

It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.

If I'm not getting older and more mature at 31, then something's wrong.

We all are so serious when we are younger.

I've experienced a lot for someone my age that a lot of people will be able to relate to.

There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.

I think over the years, being a mother, I've matured in so many ways.

It gets easier as you get older because life deals its particular hand, and our experiences get deeper, richer, more profound. When I gave birth to my son, something happened. It is a huge thing for a woman: a whole set of emotions you never had before arrives, and a love you never had before in your life is now on tap.

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

Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a little sad. You've got to be careful.

I've lived a lot in the last 12 years or however long its been since Boy Meets World. I have a lot more to draw upon in playing Randy than I did playing Frankie. Although, I did have a lot of fun playing that role.

The stuff that made me mad 20 years ago doesn't really make me mad any more.

And I think in your 40s, you land a little bit, physically and mentally, you arrive at a place where you feel you've learned some stuff. Having children at that point meant I had something very useful to do for the next 20 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.

The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered.