Iman Quotes

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self.

In your 30s, you are very aware of who you are and what you're confident in.

When you mature, you also get more secure about yourself. You see things differently.

I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.

I feel accomplished knowing that I'm still the same at heart.

You know, once you have been through a certain amount of things in life, you definitely grow more comfortable with yourself.

Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.

I'm okay with myself. I had times when I was 15 about 'Who I am?' and 'What am I?' and where I want to go, and that's behind me.

I'm a lot more grounded now, a lot more settled in my skin.

The advantage of age is that you swap youth for wisdom. You're so full of insecurities when you're young. 'Who am I? What do I have to do for people to like me?' You get caught up in things. You get very emotional about things.

I think I've grown over the years and learned about who I am and what I can do and what I can't do.

I think the teenage sides of myself have informed my adult self.

I wrote my first album almost as an entitled child. 'Taxidermy' is written by a much more precarious, untrusting adult.

I'm grounded in who I am.

I have no issues with my identity.

It's easy to forget who you are.

As I get older, I'm more comfortable in my skin.

As you get older you learn some balance and mediation in your life - that's where I am right now. I feel pretty comfortable about things.

I'm always interested in how people, myself included, have ideas of themselves, of how they thought they would be, or of how they want to be seen. And the older you get, the world keeps telling you different things about yourself. And how people either adjust to those things and let go of adolescent notions. Or they dig in deeper.

Everything you think about yourself, everything you believe about yourself, is because you learned it.

When I was younger, my father told me not to pigeonhole the way that I perceive myself.

Life is not quantifiable in terms of age, but I suppose in my fifties I am more grounded and more at ease in my own skin than when I was younger. I have a confidence that I didn't have before from the experiences I've had.

Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.

Being famous hasn't changed my perception of myself - I've just grown up.

I know who I am and I've always been comfortable in my own skin.