Eric Carmen Quotes

I had to have experience, you know what I mean? Because I've been doing this since I was 14... I couldn't write about anything at 14. I had to live some life. I definitely lived some life.

I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that you hated in high school will strike you with the force of a revelation when you're older.

You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.

I'm beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.

What I've observed and what I've imagined - and definitely what I'm hoping - happens as you get older is that there's a mellowing, an acceptance that comes with time. I guess that I'll find out.

I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

I've become a lot wiser over the years.

Just as you get older, you gain more experiences, you see more things.

I guess you could say I have grown up, matured. I have seen a lot, and I guess that probably sums it up.

I put all my big revelations into songs when I was in my 20s; as you get older, revelations are harder to come by.

I've known and seen a lot of things over my years.

We're learning things every decade we grow through, and ultimately, you do end up with a different way of looking at things.

Everything looks different when you're older, not staring up at the world but down upon it.

Aging is not just decay, you know, its growth.

One wouldn't want to have the same dilemmas at 50 as one had at 15. And indeed I don't. I have a very different take on life.

Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that you're hopefully gaining wisdom and you're starting to watch things with a better overview.

People mature with age and experience. I hope I more resemble a fine wine than bad vinegar.

What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up.

My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.

At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.

Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

People think that their world will get smaller as they get older. My experience is just the opposite. Your senses become more acute. You start to blossom.