Ed Kowalczyk Quotes

I'm a hopeless romantic and I believe that you can find love in many different places and be very conflicted. I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.

Almost every girl falls in love with the wrong man, I suppose it's part of growing up.

Everyone has relationships. Breakups are hard. Everyone graduates from school.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you're 16 can mirror the one you have when you're 26. Life repeats itself.

The Moguls is a story about guys that have all grown up together and are now in their late 40s, early 50s.

Part of growing up is realizing you learn to love so many people. It's about forming those relationships and finding what will last forever.

Twilight is about getting older and relationships - not about a murder mystery. It's about love when you reach a certain age; nothing is in primary colors.

I love coming of age stories that have struggle.

Every song is something that I've been through or an emotion I've felt - like falling in love or heartbreak.

I can speak for most songwriters - those breakup love songs are so easy to write, as far as the inspiration and all that.

It's fun chasing boys, especially when you're young, but I think it takes time and life experience to notice the other boys.

Every teenage artist out there is mostly talking about boys, and I think there's so much more to being a teenager than just boys.

My favorite movie is 'Dogfight' with River Phoenix and Lili Taylor. The ending is kind of bittersweet but so real and moving and complicated.

'Dil Chahta Hai' is not the first film about friendship. 'Lakshya' is not the first film about war and coming of age.

I love, love songs, but sometimes it's okay to just be young and talk about something other than getting married or falling in love.

Distance makes the heart grow fonder, a little bit, but there's a certain maturity level that just comes with experience and growing up.

I've apparently been the victim of growing up, which apparently happens to all of us at one point or another. It's been going on for quite some time now, without me knowing it. I've found that growing up can mean a lot of things. For me, it doesn't mean I should become somebody completely new and stop loving the things I used to love. It means I've just added more things to my list.

The many faces of intimacy: the Victorians could experience it through correspondence, but not through cohabitation; contemporary men and women can experience it through fornication, but not through friendship.

Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.

What is the use of being a little boy if you are growing up to be a man.

She is nine, beloved, as open-faced as the sky and as self-contained. I have watched her grow. As recently as three or four years ago, she had a young child's perfectly shallow receptiveness; she fitted into the world of time, it fitted into her, as thoughtlessly as sky fits its edges, or a river its banks. But as she has grown, her smile has widened with a touch of fear and her glance has taken on depth. Now she is aware of some of the losses you incur by being here--the extortionary rent you have to pay as long as you stay.

Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience and becomes friendship.

I think a breakup can be the beginning of a friendship. That's not me trying to make everything OK - it's me saying, "No, we love each other. Let's not pretend we don't."

I think a lot of my girlfriends growing up gave themselves up to any boy who paid attention to them. I think young women now are a lot more particular. They pick and choose.

Learning to love back is the hardest part of being alive.