John Baldacci Quotes

Everything I do now is a first.

I'm single. I just moved to a new city. I'm sort of starting over. I'm in Los Angeles. I don't really know what my life is right now. It's not what I thought it'd be at 37, and I think a lot of people can relate to that.

When I left my band, I had to start over from scratch, and that's a scary place to go.

I feel like in a way I'm starting over, with everything.

All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.

If I go to Hollywood, I will have to start all over again - which is fine and makes me humble.

Because we moved so much, I was always having to adapt and work out the lay of the land. So I felt envious of those who did not have to try.

You shouldn't be fearful of starting over.

There's just some times when you need a change and you need to do different things.

I wanted a future outside my hometown.

A lot of times people say they want a fresh start, but you can't really have a fresh start because it doesn't happen that way.

I don't live that life anymore, it's as simple as that.

My father helped me leave. He said, 'It's all out there, it's not here.'

When everything is good, maybe I think it's the time to do something else.

It was actually nice to get a fresh, clean slate when I came to America.

It's actually very hard when you're settled in one place to completely uproot yourself and go.

Even if you didn't come from another country, the idea of how do you make a home somewhere new is common to anyone who's either going to college, shifting towns.

If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.

I had to know if I could make it somewhere else. I did not want to go through the rest of my life wondering what might have been without putting myself to the test.

I feel like I've started a new chapter in my life, and I need to leave the past behind.

There is always a time to move on.

Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.

What's so fascinating and frustrating and great about life is that you're constantly starting over, all the time, and I love that.

Who can't relate to the idea of leaving one chapter behind and moving on to the next?

It is a good thing to start fresh.