Jay-Z Quotes

I'm at the age where I've got to prove that I'm just as good as I never was.

You're playing serious music, and you want to be taken seriously. When they get my age wrong on the program, I wish they'd make me older.

I feel more and more at ease, because I think the older I get, the less pressure there is. People say, 'Well, he's not cutting edge because he's not in his twenties, so he's not expected to be.'

Despite what anti-aging ads say, growing older can be better. I feel better in my skin, 100 percent. You have greater effects of gravity, but the better sense of yourself you have is something I wouldn't trade. Women who lie about their age - 'why?'

I'd always tried to resist playing the supervirility thing. I liked showing the vulnerability of age.

A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending.

It's funny; we never had anything like credibility. Even though we all have some sort of punk-rock background, but so what? I really don't care about that. What's credibility anyway? Who has credibility?

I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.

How do you be a 45-year-old man in a rock band, do it well, keep your dignity and not become a parody of yourself? I don't think it will be simple.

If you're 28 and singing about being over the hill, you're pretending. When you're 67 and singing about it, you know what you're talking about.

The bulk of my fans are my age, and I'm aging at the same rate they are. That makes me relevant. They like hearing what I have to say. I work hard at it, but it's addicting, really.

I was like, 'I can't do grime. That's for kids.' - I was 20 at the time, and I thought I was a gangsta, a proper rude boy.

I'm aware, as I get older, there are less and less stories that really pertain to me and who I am and where I'm going.

I am a woman. I go on set, and I'll be who I am, and I'll represent who I am. I think it comes with age.

They say the best wrestling gimmicks are a heightened version of yourself and that's me!

I don't want to be 50 years old and rapping, man. I'm pretty sure nobody wants to do that.

Age is irrelevant.

I don't like it when people lie about their age.

I would never be a sellout, but you can never be a sellout to kids. Kids is kids!

To me, age is not that important.

The older I get the more I become aware that I'm a woman.

It is enough if I can be relevant. It is more about me keeping up with youngsters than influencing youngsters. So I just want to stay relevant, really.

When you're you long enough, you get to this space where people start respecting you.

People are always spewing this horseshit about how age doesn't matter. Well, it does matter! I'm thirty-five, and I'm happy to be thirty-five. I can't pretend I'm still a snot-nosed 21-year-old.

I'm not coming out trying to prove anything to anyone, like, 'Oh, I'm in assless chaps!' or 'I can't be tamed!' I've already been through that phase. I started at 23, you know?