Brandon Flowers Quotes

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

I have a daughter, she's twenty years old.

I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.

When you are young, nothing is more important than football, but as you get older, you get married, have kids and lose people. Then you realise your family is more important. This comes with age.

I think anybody over 30 plays parents because it happens in your thirties and so that's kind of a natural progression. But I'm definitely drawn to it. It's probably the most intense, passionate thing that happens to you as you get older.

I don't think much of anything I wrote before the age of 30.

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.

I'm about to turn 48, and I think that the closer I get to 50, the more I might be interested in fatherhood. But honestly, I'm not grown up yet myself.

As you grow older, your music begins to mature and grow older along with you.

Getting into your 30s, you don't feel the same as in your early 20s.

Over the years, I grew up as a person and made mistakes and had a great time and had a baby, kind of grew as a person and as an artist.

If you get a child when you're 50, you'll understand what children are.

On my first album some of the songs were written when I was 14 or 15 so your life experience means you change, but my style is similar.

I've calmed down, certainly, from the days of being 18, but I'm still having a good time.

I've experienced a lot for someone my age that a lot of people will be able to relate to.

I am now at an age when they wanted me to play her mother.

Things don't have to come to you in your youth. It's fine for them to come to you when you get older. That's a motto in my household.

Having my son made me grow up. I'm keeping my dangers in the movies.

My daughter's the greatest thing that's happened to me in my life and she turned me into a more responsible man, as opposed to just someone who's a perpetual teenager, thinking you're a man when you're not.

I sometimes miss the sense of excitement that I remember having when I was younger. I miss that sense of, 'Oh wow.' I think it's part of aging.

I still feel like a kid sometimes myself so hard to believe that I'm a mom. Now I'm an adult! It only took 38 years!

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

You can't sing about the same things as you did when you were 20; it would be ridiculous to sing about, I don't know, being in the quad. You can't really write about mortgage payments or stuff like that... but you can talk about 'let's make the world a better place.'

You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, 'See if you can blow this out.'

I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.