Aloe Blacc Quotes

I have a lot of growing up to do. But I think, 'Hell, is it too late?'

For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

But I had a strong reaction to my first three albums and I struggle with them now, as an adult. It's very much the same as looking at your teenage photos in high school.

I think everyone in their 30s looks back at their 20s and thinks, 'Oh God, if I'd just done this and this, and not done that.'

As I look back over my life, I've been an active person - obviously I was self-absorbed for a period of time.

That was always the dream, wasn't it? 'I wish I'd known then what I know now'? But when you got older you found out that you NOW wasn't YOU then. You then was a twerp. You then was what you had to be to start out on the rocky road of becoming you now, and one of the rocky patches on that road was being a twerp.

Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.

Life is strange. You keep moving and keep growing. Before you know it, you look back and think, "What was that?"

If I look back I am lost.

In the whole of your absurd past you discover so much that's absurd, so much deceit and credulity, that it might be a good idea to stop being young this minute, to wait for youth to break away from you and pass you by, to watch it going away, receding in the distance, to see all its vanity, run your hand through the empty space it has left behind, take a last look at it, and then start moving, make sure your youth has really gone, and then calmly, all by yourself, cross to the other side of Time to see what people and things really look like.

Midnight passes and I'm twenty-five days and a million years from becoming a man.

You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to see that the girl of nineteen who thought herself a genius was only an unusual girl writing her heart out.

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

I think it's natural as you get to the end of your twenties to start thinking about what you could have done differently - whether they went well or whether they went terribly.

I can't believe I've turned into a typical old man. I can't believe it. I was young just minutes ago.

It's hard to watch something you've done many years ago.

I wouldn't go back and be 25 again for all the tea in China.

I've done a lot of things and I've been a lot of people, but now I've come to realize who I am.

What teens will realize is always a mystery to me. I'm still realizing so many things myself, very belatedly, that it seems unwise to think I have any right to be showing people things in hopes that they'll realize them.

I think when we shot 'Tokyo Drift' I was a little too young to really understand what made Han who he is, and then I got older, and you start to make a little bit of money, and you realize that money will never buy you happiness.

I'm one of those people that makes a better adult than I did a kid.

It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.

People tend to repeat the same quotes at me that I said when I was 23. And of course, you say things then, and sometimes they're ill-advised.

I'd be like, 'You're a young, vibrant woman. Where are you?' I realized that I had been living in denial.

I think it has helped that I am so curious about what has been happening to me and that I have enjoyed watching the changes through my life, you know? I didn't know what was going to happen to me next.