Erin O'Connor Quotes

I just want to show people I've matured, not just physically but mentally.

I’ve aged, but I don’t think I’ve grown up.

For the beloved should not allow me to turn my infantile fantasies into reality: On the contrary, he should help me to go beyond them.

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

I am 30, but there are things about me that are still 15.

When you're a teenager, everything seems like the end of the world, and I don't think that's necessarily a silly thing. You're waking up and becoming aware that the world has problems and those problems affect you, whereas when you're young they don't seem to affect you that much even if you're aware of them.

Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.

Watching kids go from the age of 9 and 10 to 13 is a big, huge jump. The way they speak, their looks, their attitudes, everything changes as you go from being a little kid to a teenager.

I think I've just matured over the years.

When you're young - I probably still am at 23, though I don't feel so young anymore - you have your ups and downs.

As a person, you like to see young men mature.

Some people should have more levels of maturity than others, but you know to have a show that's grounded, tethered to reality, if you follow a group of people for six years and you show no maturity, I think that would be inaccurate.

I think you can be mature without being grown-up. You can also be grown-up without being mentally mature. One of them is forced, while the other one is your choice.

“How does one grow up?” I asked a friend the other day. There was a slight pause; then she answered, “By thinking.”

Men are but children of a larger growth.

When you get older, you're bothered, or inspired, by other things in life than a girl breaking up with you. Things get heavier as you get older.

Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don't grow up.

People think, because we're young, we aren't complex, but that's not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

I'm not the angry, rebellious child that I was. You can remain a child for a long time. I certainly did. I was a slow learner.

In certain ways, I'm not very different than I was when I was a teenager.

Life's experiences, whether they be pleasant or unpleasant, torturous or excruciatingly wonderful and blissful, you know, season you somehow and you learn from them.

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.

I have a lot of growing up to do, or a lot of growing down. I think that's probably more appropriate.

In your teens, you get the physical puberty, and between 28 and 32, mental puberty. It does make you feel differently.