Nelly Quotes

I think being a little older and a little more determined and being a little more evolved in my case and maturity in the kind of music I was doing and how I was doing it really helped to keep me grounded and with an audience that could appreciate what I was doing, who grew with me and evolved with me and kept me alive and around.

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

My music's matured so much, I don't have to create any barriers.

I think that the only goals that we try to set for ourselves is to evolve musically.

All my albums are evolutions, one on top of the other.

'Can't Stop Dancing' is this other side of me that I was ready to introduce to my fans, which is like, after you hang out with me, you start to see that I can be chilled and relaxed, and I'm a little bit more mature for my age.

It doesn't really change, actually. I think The Rolling Stones have gotten a lot better. An awful lot better, I think. A lot of people don't, but I think they have, and to me that's gratifying. It's worth it.

As I'm growing, so is my music.

'Superunknown' was one of the most dramatic shifts in what we were doing musically. I don't think I realized it at the time.

I have this theory about us. When we started writing our own songs, we were 17 years old. When you're 17, you write songs for other 17-year-olds. We stopped growing musically when we were 17. We still write songs for 17-year-olds.

I'm just expanding my sound and making it bigger.

As my guitar playing dwindled, something else in my music got better.

There are people who will always want the genre, whatever it is, to stay traditional, to stay what it was like when you were 15 years old, but I just don't think music does that. Music is always changing and evolving, just like us as people.

'99.9%' is the end product of years and years of me going through multiple styles and interests.

Our music is becoming more mature.

I feel like when you listen to music, it's almost like the same thing over and over, but of course as time goes on, rappers evolve, lyrical play evolves.

I guess with any type of music or any art, there's always an evolution.

We always try to make each record a snapshot of the band at that time.

I tend to think that every new song I make is better than the last one.

We've always done what we do, and we go out and try and get better with each record we make.

I guess when we get older, we try so hard to get our game back. Sometimes it happens, and sometimes it doesn't.

I always want to keep moving musically and trying new things.

I think the music that I'm writing and the stuff I'm going to do as I age will age.

A lot of bands change, and a lot of bands break up, but only a few grow.

Music is constantly developing and changing.