Corey Taylor Quotes

I think being a little older and a little more determined and being a little more evolved in my case and maturity in the kind of music I was doing and how I was doing it really helped to keep me grounded and with an audience that could appreciate what I was doing, who grew with me and evolved with me and kept me alive and around.

I'm just growing so quickly, so my songs are quickly changing on me. But it's fine. I love them for what they are and what they were, to me.

The story of 'Mirror Mirror' is in many ways a story about evolution. It's about the evolution of a child into an adult. It's about the evolution of those dwarves into something a little less rock-like, a little more humanoid. It's about the evolution of history, too, from the darkness of the Middle Ages into the light of the Age of Reason.

I might add that you change as a person as you grow older, so you change as a writer, too.

The thing that's changed the way I do my stand-up act is having kids and getting older and wiser and smarter. There might be a joke or two in the past that I wish I hadn't done, but in the past, you can't have it back.

I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music.

I'm a person who gets better with practice. Getting older is awesome - because you get more practice.

Everything in life, bad or good, makes you change and grow - happily, because if it didn't, we'd be machines.

I'll keep evolving and put that into my songs.

I think if you're writing from the heart, very often, the subject matter will adjust as you age... but you try to write the best song you can possibly write. For us, we have the same basic elements that make up the America sound.

All humans change. Development is our life. Transition, in labor, is the most painful time. Without change, there's no growth.

Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.

I think life changes every year. This is just a little more comfortable.

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

I'm good with getting older because I feel like, one day, I know I will love myself.

I don't understand people getting depressed about getting older. There is nothing you can do about it, so you might as well embrace it.

Where there is age there is evolution, where there is life there is growth.

I started working with Bob in 1965. We did go through a lot of changes from 65 to 74, a lot of changes. By 1974, everything had straightened itself out.

One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

I'm just getting older and better.

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.

Everybody changes, not just me.

It's nice, though, getting older and being able to do different roles.

It's the same as Keith Richards. People still ask him the same questions they asked him 30 years ago, even though he's a completely different person. And I'm a completely different person than I was 15 years ago.