Quotes about Personal Growth

Everything was based on my life and the way I grew up. Some of the bits I'm most proud of in 'Haters Back Off' actually happened.

Sometimes the adversities you go through help you become a person you are proud of, and instead of hating what you're going through, maybe bless it because for some reason; it is going to build you into that person that you are proud of being.

If you don't work through the things that haunt you early, they'll stay with you for the rest of your life.

It's time to do something different. Mind you, I'm grateful to have my career with The B-52s, but it's nice to have fun and play with my voice.

I don't know how to have fun.

If I have to do a show every day, then I should have fun. It must have an element that enriches you as a person and as an actor.

It's a pretty brutal process, having a baby.

Completing a book, it's a little like having a baby.

Digging down and finding out where your head is at when a fight is about to come, I used to get to a dark place and that's not really a place I want to go anymore. I got kids, I enjoy my life and I'm having a good time. I don't feel like I need to go there anymore.

Having children has been one of the biggest things that has happened to me in my life.

I agree with my mother that having children removes a layer of skin that you never grow back.

When I was a kid and writing more acoustic songs, I was doing it more for the attention than for the love of the music. I knew I needed to change something because I wasn't having fun and wasn't liking the songs I was writing.

I used to roof hay barns for my father. It's dangerous work. Writing is much better.

I've seen people, when they get into these bigger and bigger jobs, it goes to their heads. I've seen it. Some people in life change who they are, and some don't. I'm basically the same guy I've always been.

In life, you have to learn how to heal. You never get over stuff, but you have to learn how to heal.

I have a lot of lovely things in my life that I wasn't able to have before I got healed from my imbalanced life.

Since Elizabeth, I certainly live a healthier lifestyle.

Each of us is living our own private journey, and the more we know about each other, the healthier and happier the world will be.

It is extremely hard to break bad habits and takes a long time to start new, healthy ones.

What I want people to do is what's healthy for them.

Everybody doesn't get to do each and every film. I don't compete with others; I compete with myself. I have been an athlete, a sportsperson; so I know how to be competitive in a healthy way.

I listened to Pablo Casals, which was a big change for me. Without hearing Casals, I would never have advanced as I did.

Sometimes a little heartbreak is a lesson, and the best thing to do is just learn the lesson.

Heartbreak is something which is part of every person.