Alan Vega Quotes

I've changed a lot because I am a father.

Fatherhood has changed me and my perspective towards life.

Children change you. They really do.

I feel more and more like 'myself' these days. Before becoming a father, I can remember a low-level feeling of somehow not quite being myself.

When certain doors opened around 'Twin Peaks,' I wasn't interested in walking through them. Now I just feel like I'm more open to life. I have two children. My life is not dependent on the business in that way.

Fatherhood changed me as a musician.

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

Something like a divorce does change you, but children change you more, and now I've had three.

I feel like I didn't know who I was when I was 15. I don't feel like you're who you are for life, not even when you're 20.

Does having a wife and kids change your act? Yes, but only in the best way. It gives you weight and authority. It also makes you closer to the audience because the audience is married and has kids.

And in that time, I lost my dad and had kids of my own. It was like, OK, I get it now. I know what fatherhood is all about. And you look at your parents differently.

I think having a child can really change you if you're open to it.

It's amazing, all of the ways that having kids has changed me. I'm a much less selfish person because of them, and compared to who I was before, my patience level seems infinite.

I guess I'm weirder than I thought, particularly as I think about me as a dad.

A lot changed the moment I had kids; I had no idea of the perspective it would give me. It made making the right decisions a lot easier.

I think that once you become a parent, you cease to think of yourself as a hero or heroine.

I feel like I grew up in such a big way in the past couple of years, in a way that I never thought I would. You can't be the enfant terrible when you have the enfant at home.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

It's amazing how being a dad changes your outlook on life.

It's crazy what can happen in a decade and how much you can grow as a person and as a woman and truly find your voice.

Fatherhood has changed me, I've become more patient.

My life is divided up into before I had kids and after.

Fatherhood has gone and done much more than marriage. It has made me a far more responsible person.

Of course, fatherhood fundamentally changes a lot of your life, but it enriches you, too.

I do feel like I've changed a great deal, but not anything outside of the norm of what most people experience as they grow and they take on the responsibilities of parenthood and being more engaged in their business and all that stuff. I think it's a pretty natural evolution.