Curt Smith Quotes

The feelings we all have as 50-year-olds are different than the feelings we all have as 30-year-olds. That informs everything we do.

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.

If you've never been 40, you don't understand how it feels.

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.

When I passed the age of 50, I learned how to control my emotions.

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

If I'm not getting older and more mature at 31, then something's wrong.

The good part about getting older is you stop trying to prove anything to anyone, including yourself. All you are in the pursuit of is collecting experiences - beautiful, fragile little soap bubbles that you store in your heart, and every once in a while you pull one out and gaze at the delicate pictures it shows you.

One of the nice things about getting older is that you come to understand that you can integrate multiple aspects of your life together. When you're young, you think everything has to be binary, as that's exactly how you feel at that age.

I like getting older. When you're in your twenties you're really forging for your future. Things take shape later on.

I think that as you get older, you mellow out a lot more. Having been through the ups and downs in life, I feel more qualified to play the blues.

When I was young, I lived like an old woman, and when I got old, I had to live like a young person.

Age for me is just a number.

As time goes by and you're getting older and stuff like that - getting older sucks. You know, I hear all this crap about, 'Oh, you can age with dignity.' Really?

I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that you hated in high school will strike you with the force of a revelation when you're older.

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

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

I do think I feel it but you don't think you are cause at a certain time you are no age but you don't think you are anything. You feel the life you have lived. I feel that. It's been a long fifty years.

I always felt older than my years, maybe because I was married to someone older.

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.

The stuff that made me mad 20 years ago doesn't really make me mad any more.

Some days, you feel like a 22-year-old and some days you feel like a 40-year-old.

Everything changes as you get older - your mind, your body, the way you view the world.

At a certain point, you have to face the fact that you've turned into an old fart.