Gregory Porter Quotes

Fatherhood changed me as a musician.

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

Fatherhood has changed me and my perspective towards life.

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.

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

Life experiences inherently change you as a writer. My sense of fury calmed down when I had children and found a loving partner.

People change naturally when they have children.

Having kids sets a bomb off in your life. It really makes you examine who you are, what you believe in and what you want to be. And that is magical for creativity.

I'm a much better writer for being a father.

Being a father helps me be more responsible... you see more things than you've ever seen.

All novelists I speak to about how they started usually say it was by pulling up their roots and going to live somewhere else. You see the shape of your life at a distance.

I think anybody over 30 plays parents because it happens in your thirties and so that's kind of a natural progression. But I'm definitely drawn to it. It's probably the most intense, passionate thing that happens to you as you get older.

When you have kids you do grow up. I have just started realising it now-it changes the world, having children.

I have been a parent since I was 25. That's a large chunk of my adult life. Mother or father, it transforms you completely.

Being a mother changes perspective. Things that were once really important, the sole focus of your life, aren't the same.

Anything that is profoundly energy-shifting - like having a child - is fodder for creative thought. So for me, I welcome it and look straight into it as something to learn from.

When you become a father, everything changes.

Before, I would spend all my hours at training, come home, sleep, eat, watch football, sleep, and go back to training the next day. Now I do the school run, train, pick up my daughter. I am living in the real world. I am a father now. That has given me more satisfaction than football.

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

Fatherhood has changed my whole life.

My mindset at this stage, especially after having a daughter... it's just changed my whole outlook.

I think I'm a good father, but that's taken a lifetime of experience.

My daughter's the greatest thing that's happened to me in my life and she turned me into a more responsible man, as opposed to just someone who's a perpetual teenager, thinking you're a man when you're not.

I was surprised by how much I like being a father; surprised at what a decent father I am, because I was afraid I wouldn't be able to dump my selfishness.

I'd always imagined that one day I would be a father, but mostly it was off my radar. I admired friends who had somehow figured out how to cross that threshold.