Matt Barr Quotes

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.

As an actor, I'm not sure what I had to offer the world of tragedy and comedy when I was 21. I hadn't lived a whole lot. By my middle 30s, you know, I had been knocked around a little bit.

At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.

Whether it's 18 years old or 40 years old, we think we know what's going on. But if you're lucky enough to continue the journey, its amazing how we keep learning how much we didn't know.

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.

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

I like getting older. When you're in your twenties you're really forging for your future. Things take shape later on.

One wouldn't want to have the same dilemmas at 50 as one had at 15. And indeed I don't. I have a very different take on life.

I've had a lot of 'aha' moments, but the big 'aha' about growing older is the mental freedom.

You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.

For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

I had more energy at 50. On the other hand, at 75, I've probably got a little more wisdom and good judgment than I had at 50 because I've got more experience. But I haven't really changed. I'm still driven by the same philosophy.

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.

As you age, you have this vast cauldron of experience to draw from. Some of the experiences are great; some of them you wish you'd never had. But all of them shape the work that you do and the person you become. It's just inevitable.

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.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

Everything that happens later in life is appreciated in a different way. You can appreciate the thing for what it is, which you couldn't if you were 25 and had never experienced much else. You would take it all for granted and think that's what life is like.

As you get older, you come to a place in life where you can't just live in the present.

I love getting older. I think it has to do with always being the kid on set.

I've become a lot wiser over the years.

There are creative benefits to getting older.

We're both getting older, our children are starting to leave home. But I can say that I'm just as passionate a songwriter now in my 50s as I was in my 20s. But instead of talking about the general kind of angst that I felt as a teenager, I'm writing about more specific issues.

I'm happy with getting older and getting more focused. I thought I was focused when I was young, but you're only as focused as experience will allow you to be.