Alun Wyn Jones Quotes

There's so many things that mattered so much in my 20s and 30s that don't matter now.

With Maurice suddenly going, I realised... I think I've matured. I don't take things lightly any more.

I don't know if it's that the scripts are evolving or just that I'm getting older, but the characters become more interesting as you get older because you've lived more life at different stages. You've loved; you've lost; you have more of that journey.

Motherhood has helped me to stop overanalyzing things. It's been liberating because I used to be somewhat neurotic. I attribute that to having something bigger than myself.

I've become a lot more relaxed about my career, but maybe that's a part of growing up. I realise there are things I hold dear and value, aside from professional achievements.

Because when does anybody really grow up? I mean, I feel more grown up now, more in a place of solidity and peace. But I think a lot of people take on these roles as parents, or husband or wife, and immediately think 'That's it. I'm grown up now. Done.'

Being a mother changes perspective. Things that were once really important, the sole focus of your life, aren't the same.

A lot changed the moment I had kids; I had no idea of the perspective it would give me. It made making the right decisions a lot easier.

I played with Eddy Curry twice and in New York, the second time, he asked, 'Who are you?' My first to fourth year I was a different person. I started thinking big picture, that maybe I don't have all the answers.

I've learned a lot. I've seen a lot. I've grown a lot.

Life experiences inherently change you as a writer. My sense of fury calmed down when I had children and found a loving partner.

The older you get the more you realize that life is more than just basketball. Your vision of the world gets much wider, and you're not the centre of it no more. You understand that you're a moving part and that you have other responsibilities.

I think it's very important to grow as a person from the experiences you encounter in life.

We are all products of our experiences, good and bad. Sometimes you learn as much from the negative experiences as you do from the positive.

I've tested life and I've learned what works for me.

It's sort of interesting how, when you get older, things that were once so important sort of fall away.

I am happy to say that everyone that I have met in my life, I have gained something from them; be it negative or positive, it has enforced and reinforced my life in some aspect.

It's pathetic to have regrets about fashion. Things to do with my life, yes, I have regrets there.

When you're physically growing up, you develop emotionally with that.

You know, it's a different world now, but to skip ahead and really answer your question, only in the last five years did I find what I call holy maturity, finding the balance, finding the right person in my life so that I could live a normal life.

Living life at a young age is like being a sponge thrust into the ocean. You absorb what's around you. If you're around people who are supportive and positive, that's how you look at the world.

Recently I read the stories I wrote in my early 20s, to put in a volume. And here is this brittle young woman, writing about marriage as, not the worst thing, but the most boring thing that could happen to a person. Now I think I was wrong. I like to be proven wrong.

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

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.