Robbie Robertson Quotes

My freshman year, I was such an immature kid and I didn't know what to expect, I didn't know what I wanted or what I could do or what my abilities were off the court.

It's not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.

I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books.

Everything is a piece of me, a moment of my life.

I've been trying to grow up some myself, in my heart, and it's happening quick and I feel good about it, and I want that to come out in the music.

It feels weird to say there's more to me than that, like I'm being overdramatic, and a tear rolls down my cheek. But, no - I do like I feel like there's more to me than just baseball.

I was a very protected and confused kid till 24. It was after then, that I started taking my life seriously.

We get older, and we get more wrinkles, but fundamentally, we stay the same... You have the same fears and doubts and concerns and dreams and passions and all those kinds of things, so I feel like you don't change as much as you think you do.

The most important thing about a person is that you know who you are and what you want. You should be capable of introspection and evaluate yourself.

Growing up in postwar Japan has made me the person I am, but it is not why I do the work I do. It is a very personal thing - everything comes from inside.

But this show reminds me that there are other aspects to me besides the fact that I'm a funny chick.

Being a teen is past for me. Worrying about the world and my place in it is not.

I think, you know, when you're a teenager, sometimes your emotions are a little bit more drastic than maybe when you're in your 20s. You sort of level out a little bit.

I still feel like I haven't grown up.

You have to know who you are, if you don't you have nightmares.

If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.

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 know it sounds pathetic, but I don't know who I am.

I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity.

You grow and you change, or at least you think you do, but you're kind of the same.

In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way.

I'm always trying to figure out what my taste is, what my likes and dislikes are.

If you can understand the inner life, then you can wear the uniform, the tattoos, or whatnot and realize that the things that are different about us become superficial.

I lived a very isolated life. When you start at 20, you have a lot of nonsense to work out of your system.

I'm not changing to the point where suddenly I wear floor-length skirts and start playing the violin; I'm just growing up a little bit, I guess.