Matt Skiba Quotes

When I was 21 I think I thought I was 31. I was always kind of doing the right thing, and it wasn't until my late twenties that I became just a completely wild asshole. So I should've had that out of my system already and I was too busy being a grown-up.

I’ve aged, but I don’t think I’ve grown up.

A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it.

I feel like I'm 18, with the maturity level of like a 14-year-old. I'm still the same goofball; I'm still in college, as far as I'm concerned.

Some people do need to grow up, but I don't think I'm there yet. I don't think I'm ready to do grown-up things and be a grown-up.

I hope that there's a difference between being childish and childlike and that I'm the latter, if you take my meaning. I often sort of wonder. I don't think I'm a terribly good grown-up; I don't take responsibility easily or well in many areas of life. Finance and stuff like that, I'm absolutely appalling.

That's my proudest accomplishment: that I don't feel like a grown-up.

I was an adult when I was supposed to be a kid. So now I'm an adult and I'm acting like a kid.

When you are in your 20s and you're not married with kids, you're having fun. But when you're in your 30s and you're not married and don't have kids, you begin to develop a Peter Pan complex. As you grow older, you have more responsibilities and you have to step up to them.

I think I'm playing grown up because I have kids now. But I don't feel grown up yet.

I still feel like I haven't grown up.

I think I am an adult.

I felt different at 29 because 29, to me, is 30. There are times when I still feel like an actual toddler in a grown-up - well, semi-grown-up - body.

Some days, you feel like a 22-year-old and some days you feel like a 40-year-old.

I think I've been lucky enough to have had an extended adolescence. I'm a lot like I was when I was 15.

You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

Because when does anybody really grow up? I mean, I feel more grown up now, more in a place of solidity and peace. But I think a lot of people take on these roles as parents, or husband or wife, and immediately think 'That's it. I'm grown up now. Done.'

I'm one of those people who never really joined the grown-ups.

I didn't put out this album because I wanted everybody to know I was grown up. I'm 21 and that's not grown up.

I'm not sure why I still think of myself as 28 - maybe that's the point where you start growing up, and then you just feel the same for evermore.

I'm a big kid, you know?

I've got some growing up to do.

By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd grown up

Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.

I don't see what the point is in growing up.