Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain Quotes

'Urban Renewal' was sweet because I've been - unfairly, I would say - plonked in the middle of the road because of a handful of songs. It came at a good time for me, because you do take a bit of a browbeating and, as you get older, you become better at accepting it and realizing why it happens.

People are going to write things about you, but you have to take the good with the bad, so you shouldn't take it very seriously. If you take it to heart, it'll get very difficult to deal with. So, just take it with a pinch of salt.

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.

I was not used to criticism.

My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn.

Having haters is just a part of the business, and the more haters you have, the more people like you - that's how I view it, because I try to see the positive in things.

I didn't read reviews earlier in my career, but I read them now as I'm older. I read them all.

I've learned not to look at reviews. Early on, I did. I was always curious.

I don't read my reviews, but I have a bunch of them and I will when I'm 80.

With success always comes criticism. I've been criticized every year of my life.

Frankly, you're heading down a dangerous path if you take seriously what people say about you, and I don't read most of it.

It's only through aging and going through heartbreak and loss and successes and failures that you can look back and look at the mistakes some young people make.

I'm fully aware, I've gotten terrible reviews my entire career. It's not a really big deal; it's something I can deal with.

I hate that you get beat up so much about an accomplishment, but I guess that's part of life. Haters gonna hate.

You know that once you're successful, there's going to be good things and bad things that people say and, honestly, to me it doesn't really matter.

I understand when results don't go well, it gets broken down and people blame whoever. You've got to take the good with bad.

When you're young, you tend to believe what people tell you, and that's dangerous. As you get older, you learn that you're never as good or as bad as they say you are. If you understand this, you win.

We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

I had someone tell me I fell off, ooh I needed that.

People are always going to say stuff about you and there are always going to be crazy rumours out there, but as long as you know the truth, you're fine.

Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.

I knew that I had it tough compared to children around me. But I felt like I needed it. I think I had the wisdom as a child to know that it would help me later on.

We're going to be treated very poorly, I think that goes with the territory, and you have to get over it, get beyond it and know who you are among your peers and especially among your family when you look in the mirror.

I shall always be proud of what I've done, regardless of what you journalists or anybody can say.

Success is a wonderful thing, but it tends not to be the sort of experience that we learn from. We enjoy it; perhaps we even deserve it. But we don't acquire wisdom from it.