Quotes about Personal Growth

Whether you think you're jacked up or not, we're all broken people, and until we can admit that, we're not going to progress.

Because I'm in an adult world and I'm really working, my age is just a number. It's not really who I am.

I'm one of those people that makes a better adult than I did a kid.

New York grabbed me too hard, as did adulthood.

Being single has its own advantages and it's a fun thing.

I wanted college to be a real American adventure for me.

If you're not adventurous,, you're not really living, I think... especially in college.

I don't think anybody can be told how to act. I think you can give advice. But you have to find your own way through it.

Voicing the role of Minnie has deeply affected me in many ways.

The songs I write and the way I see the world have been affected a certain amount since I became a father.

I work at being a better member of my family. So I know that that affects and drifts and soaks into my work, and my art.

Because if I am someone else for so many months, it affects me, physically, in my brain, in my being. So then I have to take care of that, and make myself more like me again.

When I am in Africa, I realize I don't know much, have not seen much, and there's a lot to be done.

Every movie, especially when you get involved... takes something out of you. You learn something, but you give something to the movie. And after the movie, if the experience has been intense and a true experience, you're a little different afterward.

My development at every age group was good. If I was playing in one age group, I always wanted to play the year above.

I feel like I aged for the better, for sure.

In 2005, I did a lot on 'Habibi' and a lot of business stuff. I got an agent that year.

Maybe I didn't have the childhood people think you should have, but I still went through the ages; I was still a child.

At certain times during your career, at different ages, you feel better than others.

'Alarm' and 'Ciao Adios' are about the same person, yeah.

For me, that first album, there was a lot of fun stuff.

It took me three albums to get the confidence and to find out what I could do that made me different from other people. And the first record, really, was a process of trying.

I had to change my relationship with alcohol in order to become the man that I knew I could be and that my family would be proud of.

I've been on campuses all my life.