James Taylor Quotes

Maybe in my 20s I was a little more lively. But I'm done with that.

Real Madrid wanted me to join their academy. It was a big decision to move when I was 15. It's a key age for a youngster, and you're close to your friends and family. But I moved to Madrid, and my family stayed at home. It made me mature earlier than normal. That was a very big decision, and it changed me in a positive way.

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.

It's sort of interesting how, when you get older, things that were once so important sort of fall away.

I know you think that when you're 35, 45, 55, you'll be different. But I'm going to let you in on a bit of a secret. You're going to look different, and your life is going to be different, but in your head you'll always be that 16-year-old girl.

I'm not a 21-year-old angsty self-destructive rapscallion anymore.

It is not easy to age in harmony with one's roles.

At 21, there's lots more room there, plenty of things to improve on as you get older.

Heaven knows that there are plenty of opportunities in later life, too, for being carried away. What of it? We remain what we are and, no doubt, it is all very good for us!

I don't want to continue to do what I did when I was 20. I would like to continue to develop myself and not continue to hang around with bands.

When you are young, nothing is more important than football, but as you get older, you get married, have kids and lose people. Then you realise your family is more important. This comes with age.

There's so many things that mattered so much in my 20s and 30s that don't matter now.

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.

And I continued to grow until I was 25 years old.

Every year, you have to keep adjusting. I'm 28; I'm not 19 anymore. You have to work harder now.

I'm 36 years old, and I'm growing up. Little by little.

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

I'm not going to say that a very young Charlie Weber is without his indiscretions. But not anymore; I'm way past those days.

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.

You do certain things in your twenties that are just not appropriate in your thirties and certainly not appropriate in your forties. Eventually you even the scales, and it's time to move on and become an adult and start working hard again and going to sleep a little bit earlier. Fortunately, I got a job to facilitate that transition.

As I'm getting older, I feel like maybe I need to grow up a bit.

So many things come with your maturation process. I changed throughout my time with WWE from a kid in his 20s into a man.

I think turning 30 - and same with turning 21, 25, or turning 18 - those are moments in life where something new is expected of you, or you expect something new from yourself.

Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed.

A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself. When you are a child your vessel is not yet full;so you care for nothing but your own affairs. When you grow up, your vessel overflows; and you are a politician, a philosopher, or an explorer and adventurer. In old age the vessel dries up: there is no overflow: you are a child again.