Frankie Cosmos Quotes

Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.

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.

You express different energies at different times in your life.

I try to say something about the human condition whenever I can when I'm lucky.

Yeah, I've had an odd youth, But I wouldn't know the difference if I'd lived it any other way. And I wouldn't change any of it because I quite like what I'm doing.

I don't want to just tell my story - I want to share the experiences, life lessons, and values that have shaped who I am and my ideas for the future.

I wake up every morning trying to be a new, better person and version of myself. I never try and be the same thing. So that's what's going to be hard for girls to keep up with me, because I'm always ever-evolving my style.

I've tested life and I've learned what works for me.

You know, let a few years go by until I hit my midlife crisis. Then that can be documented on film.

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

My act has always reflected what's going on in my life.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.

I don't think I'd change the path that's got me where I am today.

A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience.

'Joy' to me is a reflection of the life experiences that I've had throughout the first record and kind of having some time and a hiatus. It's just like all of those experiences that I had during that period - that growing up period.

I began working quite young, writing, growing, maturing, always striving to top myself - to make people laugh hard at things they know and believe deep in their hearts to be true.

The older that we get and the different stages we go through in life, it seems like we become different people. But I think that the truth is you are always the same person. You just discover these new things about yourself.

I think, if you put a camera in anyone's life and document it daily from the age of 21 to 27, there are going to be things that aren't always pretty.

I like to write when I feel I'm the real me.

I'm going to keep on finding out the kind of man I am through my music. That's the one place I can be free. But the reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time.

Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.

Through therapy and a lot of thinking and writing my memoirs, I've been able to use my life as a lesson.

My lyrics come from my experiences growing up in life, trying to find out and express who I am. That's basically it. I'm not trying to be a prophet or anything like that. I'm just reflecting on life.

I'm a different athlete, I'm a different person.