Johnny Simmons Quotes

I hit my thirties and felt I had to start being profound.

Of course you do things differently in your 30s and 40s than in your 20s.

The romantic idealism of my youth has been replaced with realism and hard work at what I love.

Between 21-30 women go through humungous changes. After that, they've generally achieved what they wanted, and they're more settled.

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about what's important in life.

Who doesn't change through their 20s? I changed probably more than the average person who lives in one place and has a job. But everybody changes significantly in maturity, we'd like to think, from 20 to 30.

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 do feel like I've changed a great deal, but not anything outside of the norm of what most people experience as they grow and they take on the responsibilities of parenthood and being more engaged in their business and all that stuff. I think it's a pretty natural evolution.

Getting older doesn't bother me. When I was 30, I thought I should have achieved more, but you get more comfortable and think it's time to stop putting pressure on yourself.

My freshman year, I was such an immature kid and I didn't know what to expect, I didn't know what I wanted or what I could do or what my abilities were off the court.

I was having a good time before, but you grow up after a couple years and realize, "I can't get drunk like this every night." Things change.

What happens at 50, more or less, you lose what you need to create another person, to sustain another person; you keep what you need to sustain yourself. And there's something wonderful about that.

I know you think that when you're 35, 45, 55, you'll be different. But I'm going to let you in on a bit of a secret. You're going to look different, and your life is going to be different, but in your head you'll always be that 16-year-old girl.

You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to see that the girl of nineteen who thought herself a genius was only an unusual girl writing her heart out.

I'm not a 21-year-old angsty self-destructive rapscallion anymore.

One should mature over 20 years.

I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music.

A woman has many faces as she goes through her life. It's like we need more than one hair-do. We have many, many changes in the evolution of our lives. We have, we learn, and we grow; we view life differently, and life views us differently.

I've changed my life in a lot of ways. I'm a mom, a wife, and a Christian. Some of the things I expressed in my early 20s aren't what I care to express right now.

I am really looking forward as I get older and older, to being less and less nice.

It is not easy to age in harmony with one's roles.

In certain ways, I'm not very different than I was when I was a teenager.

I'm not changing to the point where suddenly I wear floor-length skirts and start playing the violin; I'm just growing up a little bit, I guess.

Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they're 21 years old.