Liam Payne Quotes

I guess I didn't feel confident enough to be searching in a big public way. I was very content at the time to toil in obscurity on things that I thought might point me in certain directions or teach me certain things - not knowing what that would be.

So many things come with your maturation process. I changed throughout my time with WWE from a kid in his 20s into a man.

I think that everybody kind of changes a lot between the time they're seventeen and when they're twenty-one or twenty-two.

If my former self and my current self met for coffee, they'd get along OK, but they'd both probably walk out of the Starbucks shaking their heads and saying to themselves, “That guy is kinda delusional.”

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

We're constantly morphing into different outward manifestations of ourselves. That's what I find curious about people.

At a certain point, you realize you have a responsibility more behind yourself and your need for adrenaline. I'm glad I did things in my 20s that were more reckless.

I think I've changed a lot as a person.

Life is definitely always about expanding. That's how we grow.

I always imagined that magically, at some point, I would settle into this very easy and refined sophistication, but it turns out that who you are at eleven is pretty much who you are at 27, so I don't know how much I've learned over the years.

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.

In high school I was always thinking, 'Should I be doing more? What else should I be doing?' Now I know it will all come to me. I just have to trust my path, so that's very different.

There's no blueprint for where I should be. I see myself as a young, good actor who still has a lot to learn. There's nobody at any point in their career who is the finished article.

You're definitely a different person at different stages in your life.

I think the beauty of growing up is not really knowing and figuring it out for yourself.

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

When I was younger, I thought I was too young to really be personal. I thought that what I was feeling and thinking might be half-baked.

Little kids grow up discovering the world that's shown to them and then when you become a teenager, it kind of shrinks a little bit. I think when you get past that point, one of the important things is that you see there is more to the world than yourself.

I'm not sure who I am. That's why I keep saying I'm an adventurer that goes out.

I think I was going through a lot of change at 27, but I didn't know it was happening until it was over.

I look at that person and I'm like, That's not Kelli White. That's not who I am, who I started out to be.

I stepped away to find out more about myself, which I was having difficulty doing as a football player. I got a chance to travel the world. I studied Eastern philosophy, and I've grown as a person so much.

People change. I wouldn't like to be accountable for the interviews I've done, or the person I was when I was 20, 21.

When I was in my 20s, I thought I knew who I was. And then as soon as I turned 30, I realized that person has bruises and bumps and dark parts. And you kind of go, well, that's it. I'd rather embrace it than force myself to change.

I think I just took a while to know myself. I went on a journey to find out. I was a bit wild.