John Legend Quotes

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.

My songwriting has evolved, just as I've evolved as a person.

It takes time to be who you really want to be. It doesn't happen overnight.

Music was a means through which I could meet people and sort of begin the process of exploring who I was or who I could be.

It's always relevant - moving forward into the future and finding out who you are. I think those themes never get stale.

I gotta be who I am now. How do you not, right?

We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves.

There are so many people we could become, and we leave such a trail of bodies through our teens and twenties that it's hard to tell which one is us. How many versions do we abandon over the years?

I don't make changes to confuse anyone. I'm just searching. That's what causes me to change. I'm just searching for myself.

Who are we when we leave our families? Who do we become? What are we capable of? That's something that never leaves us. It begins at that point in your life when you leave the nest, and I don't think we stop wanting to explore that question.

I'm still exploring in a lot of ways. I don't know myself completely.

That's what just hit me: How you really can't have everything. You have to give up the old to get the new. You can't be the child and the mom at the same time. You can't be your young self and your old self at the same time. You can't know what you know now and feel the way you did then. You can't, you can't, you can't.

When you're younger, you tend to be reckless about trying to find out who you are and what you can do and should do. But as you get older you become more accepting of yourself, and with that comes greater contentment.

I'm trying to play the truth of what I am. The reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time.

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

I knew who I was as a girl but I had to find who I was as a woman.

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

I'm attracted to seeing how different I can be, pushing the boat out.

We neither get better or worse as we get older, but more like ourselves.

You grow and you change, or at least you think you do, but you're kind of the same.

Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own.

I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution.

Life is definitely always about expanding. That's how we grow.

It's the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world.

In my twenties, I was obsessed with what other people thought of me. In my thirties, it's about my children, my husband, my work. In my forties, it's going to be about me, and I shan't care what anyone else thinks. I can't wait!