Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Quotes

When I look at pictures when I was younger, I do the quintessential cringe.

Back then, I couldn't have left a poem a year and gone back to it.

I definitely do live my life at a different pace now than I used to... I feel like I'm guilty of all the overindulgences of a guy in his 20s and early 30s could've gone through, but I look back on it with great fondness. I don't have a lot of regrets.

I think everyone in their 30s looks back at their 20s and thinks, 'Oh God, if I'd just done this and this, and not done that.'

The older you get, the better you realize you were.

I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was younger. I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was stronger

Five years from now I'm probably going to look back on the things I'm doing and cringe.

I'm a grown man. You know, I've been in a lot of scrapes, but I never felt like I got so - there are probably a lot of things I should have done that I didn't do.

I learned from my past.

I'm never so sure as I was in my mid-20s.

I think it's natural as you get to the end of your twenties to start thinking about what you could have done differently - whether they went well or whether they went terribly.

My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn.

I think when we shot 'Tokyo Drift' I was a little too young to really understand what made Han who he is, and then I got older, and you start to make a little bit of money, and you realize that money will never buy you happiness.

When I see myself at 14 years old I can put my hands on my head and think: 'How could I have done that?' but at that time it had sense for me. You do the same when you're 20. And now, when you look at people who are 20 years old you ask yourself: 'Was I like that? Was I really like that?'

I'm one of those people that makes a better adult than I did a kid.

I look back at my twenties and see that I was much less confident.

For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

I was a very self-righteous 15-25 year old. Anyway, I wake up every morning and thank God I'm not a kid anymore.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

I was in a bar and I said to a friend, 'You know, we've become those 40-year-old guys we used to look at and say, 'Isn't it sad?'

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

When I look back at my life now, I'm not amazed by what I did at 16 to 21.

But I had a strong reaction to my first three albums and I struggle with them now, as an adult. It's very much the same as looking at your teenage photos in high school.

I made so many mistakes when I was younger.

I think, like anyone else, I made my mistakes.