John Rzeznik Quotes

When I was a child, I acted like child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

When we talk of leaving our childhood behind us, we might as well say that the river flowing onward to the sea had left the fountain behind.

I think people have been really receptive to understanding that I've grown up and the music's going to sound a little different.

Now a lot has changed and I can separate a lot of things.

Once you get over that peak of puberty, you hit a nice stride.

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

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

We are who we're going to be when we're very old, and when we're very old we are who we were when we were 8.

I have matured a lot.

There is a lot of learning I have to do and a lot of growing up I have to do.

People mature at different stages and I feel I'm learning a lot.

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. I suppose we all realize the degree to which fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

A home is a place in time. And no place stays the same after you finally grow up and leave it. No place can ever change as much as the person who grows up there.

It's so crazy to meet people you've known about since you were many feet shorter than you are now.

I don't think I listen to anything that I did when I was 17. I've changed a great deal.

All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing in a garden, and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother. I suppose she must have looked rather delightful, for Mrs Darling put her hand to her heart and cried, ‘Oh, why can’t you remain like this for ever!’ This was all that passed between them on the subject, but henceforth Wendy knew that she must grow up. You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.

People are like plants: They grow; they change every day.

I'd love to go back to when we played as kids, but things change. And that's the way it is.

It is not the years but the changes that make us grow.

We do not change as we grow up. The difference between the child and the adult is that the former doesn't know who he is and the latter does.

Obviously, I'm a little more responsible these days.

There are a lot of people who influenced me, nurtured me, helped me along the way. But I can just recall looking back, the first time I got my baseball glove. Put it on the wrong hand, all those kind of things.

The growing-up-fast part weirdly happened between the ages of 15 and 22.

Of course, I'm older now. I'm in a different place in my life than when I wrote the songs for 'Car Wheels' or 'Essence' or whatever. Different things were going on.

Then again, I think about high school every day and I think about being a little kid every day too.