Michael J. Willett Quotes

I've loved my 20s, but I would never repeat them.

I wouldn't go back on my old days, though; everybody needs to have their wild years. It's just a question of when and I'd rather have had them early than be doing it as a mid-life crisis type thing.

I feel like I experienced my 20s in all their glory and all their disastrousness.

My first four albums covered the usual youth problems - looking for love in all the wrong places - while the next five are basically about being in your 30s.

From my experience, moving through life, things tend to go in eight- to 10-year cycles. Friends, relationships and whatnot.

What can you know about life at 14? I have learned a lot since, but you learn slowly. You get hit by many things and try to make sense of it.

Can you imagine peaking as a teen? I think if you peak in high school, there's a problem. That's what my sister always said: 'Don't worry, you'll peak later.'

I think, for every phase of your life, you take something out of it, you learn from it, you grow from it. You just have to try to take what you can from it and then move on to the next phase of your life to be better.

It's interesting how things you hear as a kid take on a whole new meaning when you are an adult.

I think that when you're young, you carry the weight of the world on your shoulders. You're anxious; the world seems like a scary place. You don't know where you're going to fit in, what you're gonna do with your life - but actually, life has a way of sorting itself out, and universal law takes over.

I definitely wasn't a perfect person in high school. That is the time to make mistakes, especially with significant others and also with friends.

I used to write about experiences that a 20-year-old would write about - going out with your friends, having a drink. You know, things were a little bit sexier in a different way. Now, you know, I'm a mom, and I want to filter some of the things that I say.

I know it's hard to believe that I'm no longer the young 'Zuri' everyone has grown to love, which I truly appreciate, but like every young lady, I'm growing, I'm maturing and finding myself at 16 years old discovering the joys and pains of the world we live in.

I can't imagine life without Vogue at this point. People say, what's changed? What's different But it's just part of growing up, meeting your soulmate and moving on with life.

I feel like we're always learning about ourselves, but at twelve, you're learning big things that shape your identity.

Every teenager, I think, thinks it's the end of the world whenever anything happens, and it's not. You'll get through it. Life will be much more interesting and will certainly be broader when you're older.

My character in 'Mr. Holland's Opus' was kind of coming of age, learning about a world that was opening up to her.

I have been tamed. My party days are well and truly behind me.

I'll admit that I enjoyed my 20s more than my teens, my 30s more than my 20s.

When you're a kid, you live carefree. You notice things that go on around you, but you live like a kid with no worries until you get to that certain age where trials and tribulations come and you gotta fight and stay on your toes.

You go through so many changes, especially in your twenties.

As a person, you like to see young men mature.

The hardest moments of your life in your 20s will provide some of the greatest lessons that will come in handy later.

Many associate me with the person I was when I was young. But I had a different role then, played in a different position.

When you're young it's football, football, football. Then you get a family, kids come into things and you find you have a broader view of life. You get your inspiration from many different places.