Sharon Needles Quotes

I am so far more secure and more grounded and more know who I am than when I was in my 20s.

I think the teenage sides of myself have informed my adult self.

If I'd trusted myself and listened to myself all the times that I ignored myself, I would have been fine. But everyone has to learn their lesson, and now I've got it.

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self.

In high school I was always thinking, 'Should I be doing more? What else should I be doing?' Now I know it will all come to me. I just have to trust my path, so that's very different.

I'm okay with myself. I had times when I was 15 about 'Who I am?' and 'What am I?' and where I want to go, and that's behind me.

I'd never want to go back to being in my twenties or thirties. I was lost and confused and uncomfortable in my own skin.

There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

The advantage of age is that you swap youth for wisdom. You're so full of insecurities when you're young. 'Who am I? What do I have to do for people to like me?' You get caught up in things. You get very emotional about things.

In your 30s, you are very aware of who you are and what you're confident in.

When you mature, you also get more secure about yourself. You see things differently.

I'm happier in my thirties. I feel clearer about who I am and less apologetic about it, and more accepting of my limitations and also more aware of the ways in which I'm capable.

I think as I've gotten older and the things I've gone through, I'm not as concerned about what everybody thinks.

I just want to show people I've matured, not just physically but mentally.

I think I've grown over the years and learned about who I am and what I can do and what I can't do.

Me finding my confidence took me a while, but now I love that I went through everything I did before to get to where I am now.

I've grown and I've matured, and I kind of like that.

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'm not nearly as important as I used to think I was. It's a wonderful discovery.

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.

I started second-guessing myself and was always questioning myself. I have really learned a lot.

Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.

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 was 20 years old and felt I had a lot to offer, even to myself.