Joe Bonamassa Quotes

I'm definitely a lot more comfortable now in my 40s than in my 30s - that's for sure.

I used to worry about being cool. Now I realize that I genuinely don't care.

As you get older, you're not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn't running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing.

I'm coming from a place of total strength and humility now.

I've fully embraced who I am. I stopped fighting with people and just come to realize, 'This is me. This is all of me.'

Maybe it has something to do with turning 30. I don't feel as shy or nervous or self-conscious. I have more confidence that I can handle what life brings me. I don't feel scared to have an idea and express it.

As much as I loathe this aging thing, I'm beginning to recognize that I am now a healthier person in terms of self-worth and knowing who I am and where I fit in the world. That's been a good trade-off for the wrinkles.

At first, I ain't gon' lie, I used to be a little nervous about what people were gon' think about my music, but once I let that go, then everything started happening.

Worry less about having to fit, and focus more on what you want to make - this will always serve you.

After a while, you reach a certain point to where you know what your talent is, you know what you're capable of, and you have to not care.

Once you really know yourself, can't nobody tell you nothing about you.

I feel more comfortable with myself now. I don't know if I feel sexier. I feel more whole.

One of the biggest things I've done is learn how to love myself, flaws and all. Even the things I don't like about myself, I accept. People have made fun of me and made me self-conscious about talking so softly, for example, but I accept that as who I am and I'm not changing it for anybody. I'm at peace with who I am now, and once you've achieved that, all the other stuff disappears.

I was always very shy but as I get older I think, What am I being shy for? You just grow weary of your own hang-ups.

I think I grew up, stopped worrying about what people thought of me, and whether things were going to turn out OK. I'm concentrating on doing the best work I can do and letting it go at that.

I really don't need to suffer. I can really become a happy person and still make good music - in fact, better music.

It's one thing for other people to see potential in you, and it's quite another for you to understand that and see it in yourself.

I really don't care that I'm ranked.

I'm just a human being that is in touch with myself. And I'm honest with myself. And I really, at the end of the day, don't care what people say. I never cared about what people say.

I can say I have become far more open about what I believe.

As I get older, I feel better about myself because I've done a lot of spiritual work on myself and balanced myself out, and so I feel more confident about myself as a person and as a woman.

Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

Maybe I don't take myself so seriously any more. And I don't care how I'm judged. I'm past all that.

I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.