Elle King Quotes

I know that in my past I was young and irresponsible - but that's what growing up is. You learn from your mistakes.

My mom calls me an older soul because, growing up, she taught me stuff real early. Now I spend most of my time chasing wisdom, chasing understanding.

As a young boy, I did a lot of foolish things. I made a lot of mistakes. And you live and learn.

My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true.

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.

'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.

We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.

In time we grow older, we grow wiser, we grow smarter, and we're better. And I feel like I'm becoming more seasoned, although I don't have my salt-and-pepper hair.

I made stupid decisions as a kid, or as a young adult, but I'm trying to be now, I'm trying to take this lemon and make lemonade.

I remember when I was 33 or 34, it was devastating because I realized I wasn't a kid anymore. The great thing about 40 was that I really felt like I had life experience and knew what I was doing now.

If I had it all to do over again, I would do most all things differently. However, how would I know that if, I had not had the opportunity to do them the first time.

As I go through life, I can see why my mother directed me that way, or why my father counseled me in that way. But some things you're open to when you're young, and some things you need to find out for yourself. I think that that's pretty universal.

I'm an old man of 73, and I've been around a long time. If I don't know something by now, I probably never will.

I think you get better as you get older.

It took me a long time to grow up.

You couldn't pay me enough money to go back to being 20. So many tears; what a nightmare it was. It's much better being older.

You have to grow up, and you learn things along the way.

It's so much more interesting having life under your belt.

You gotta learn a lesson as you go through life.

When you're younger, you're trying to understand and make sense of what your parents are trying to instill in you, which is ultimately life experience. I remember being 17 and my dad trying to teach me the importance of responsibility.

Back when I was an idealistic 18-year-old on my way to Chicago, I might have believed that being on the side of virtue would guarantee a good outcome. These many years later, I know better.

With time, you do get mature.

It's like when your parents tell you what to do, but it's not until you go through it yourself that you see why they said what they said. Sometimes you just have to go through things in life to become a better person.

I feel a lot older than I am.

I had to have experience, you know what I mean? Because I've been doing this since I was 14... I couldn't write about anything at 14. I had to live some life. I definitely lived some life.