Regina Spektor Quotes

A Tribe Called Quest was one of those things where it was supposed to be about growth. When I say 'growth,' I don't just mean with our sound or our product, but Tribe was supposed to grow as individuals.

I think being a little older and a little more determined and being a little more evolved in my case and maturity in the kind of music I was doing and how I was doing it really helped to keep me grounded and with an audience that could appreciate what I was doing, who grew with me and evolved with me and kept me alive and around.

My comedy grows as I grow as a person.

I want so many artists that I care about to go away and grow up, and have been amazed at how hard that is for some people to do.

I've changed a lot, too! I'm different, too. I have far more in some ways to offer and far less in other ways to offer. That's life. And, you know, life goes on!

To be honest with you, I don't have one track that I consider better than the next because all I'm trying to do is still grow as an artist. I got way better since the early nineties, as far as putting words together. My best energy probably was the '90s, because I was new.

I'm really proud of 'Bright Lights' because I was still in the mind frame of my first album when I was putting it together, but next time I want to display something different. I don't want to be as young, immature and all about boys!

You grow and evolve and as you do that, your art hopefully reflects that change and that growth.

When you're young, you make mistakes. But eventually you learn from them.

If something is going on and you are struggling, embrace it. You are growing.

I've tried to be more mature and my mindset is a lot different now.

I always grow, every album.

I felt love on 'Lil Boat 2.' People say my first project, 'Lil Boat,' was my best project, but I didn't feel it because I was so new, and it took a minute to grow.

I wrote my first album almost as an entitled child. 'Taxidermy' is written by a much more precarious, untrusting adult.

People are like plants: They grow; they change every day.

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'm happier in the way a guy gets happier when he starts to mature. It doesn't make things easier, but I'm so much better at handling them.

Growing up is hard, love. Otherwise everyone would do it.

It is not the years but the changes that make us grow.

It's vital to be growing through your life rather than going through your life. The object is not to change other people or situations; it's to do the inner work they stimulate.

I think that growing up is something that you should do gradually.

The writing of the Beatles, or John and Paul's contribution to the Beatles in the late sixties - had a kind of depth to it, a more mature, more intellectual approach. We were different people, we were older. We knew each other in all kinds of different ways than when we wrote together as teenagers and in our older twenties.

When you look at me in the beginning of '96 and at the end of '96, I'm two different people.

I don't want to get into a comfort zone. I am getting characters of varying shades, which I believe will help me grow as an actor.

I want to keep growing in every area.