Damon Dash Quotes

But I had a strong reaction to my first three albums and I struggle with them now, as an adult. It's very much the same as looking at your teenage photos in high school.

When I look at pictures when I was younger, I do the quintessential cringe.

I do always look back and feel faintly embarrassed by anything I've done in the past. I think that's not a terrible thing, because if you don't do that, how are you growing and moving forward?

The older you get, the better you realize you were.

Five years from now I'm probably going to look back on the things I'm doing and cringe.

I'm not sure whether I've been happy. After my last book tour, I sat on my balcony with a cup of tea. I thought: 'You can't rewind the movie. I've spent more than half my life in the Middle East. There have been great moments of horror and depression and loneliness.'

I'm a grown man. You know, I've been in a lot of scrapes, but I never felt like I got so - there are probably a lot of things I should have done that I didn't do.

I learned from my past.

Yes, OK, farty is a silly word. I wish I'd never used it. I'm 34. Perhaps it was a word for my 20s.

I think it's natural as you get to the end of your twenties to start thinking about what you could have done differently - whether they went well or whether they went terribly.

I say really stupid things sometimes. When I go back and watch some of my old interviews from when I was younger, I just cringe.

I've certainly had a lot of experiences in my life where I was much too self-centered.

I suppose I sometimes used to act like I wasn't a human being... Sometimes I look back at myself and remember things I used to say, or my hairstyle, and I cringe.

In the past, my aspirations were as arty as they could get, and I'm really embarrassed by it.

My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn.

I think when we shot 'Tokyo Drift' I was a little too young to really understand what made Han who he is, and then I got older, and you start to make a little bit of money, and you realize that money will never buy you happiness.

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

It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.

I was a very self-righteous 15-25 year old. Anyway, I wake up every morning and thank God I'm not a kid anymore.

I can look back at things I've done and said and worn and be completely humiliated by them, but I can never say it wasn't me. I feel really honored to say that.

I'm a grown woman. I can come up with plenty of things that I've done and said or didn't say or failed to do that remain with me as sources of embarrassment.

When I look back at the way that I was in that documentary I cringe.

I've always been sort of influenced by my male relationships and that period of my life when you start to cringe and be like, 'I can't believe I wore this or that.'

I know it was raw in some places, and I was a jerk in some places, but that's the way I was, and I was stupid.

I must have been an annoying child.