Quotes About Evolution

I don't listen to my old stuff very often at all.

One of my rules is: Never listen to your old stuff.

I think it's important that we have a new batch of British film-makers that aren't doing the same old stuff. And that includes me.

I don't live in the past or focus on making new songs sound like my old stuff; it would be stupid, and I don't think anyone would like it.

I try not to look at my old stuff or my new stuff, really. I'm not a fan.

I find it incredibly annoying to just go out and sing the old stuff and write songs that sound like the old stuff.

Sometimes when you're with the same old people, you get the same old thing.

I think the idea of crazy goalkeepers is an old thing, really.

I continue to be interested in new things that seem old and old things that seem new.

Clinging to old ways and fighting change is not the answer.

Old ways of thinking die hard, particularly when they were weaned by legally enforced monopolies.

My challenge is to convince Ontarians that the old world is not coming back.

I don't think the music that I do is nostalgic in any way; I don't think about going back to nice, old-fashioned music. I'm certainly influenced by old music, but I want to bring it slap-bang up to today.

The fact that I made a special movie with an old-fashioned style - even if it's a mix between with modern and old-fashioned things - must mean I feel both ways about change. In a way I'm resisting, but in a way adapting myself to the times.

I've been in New York my whole life. It's changed so much; it's not the New York that I grew up with. All the landmarks of my childhood are gone. I do kind of feel like a bitter old-timer, like, 'These kids don't know what it was like.'

You don't get older, you get better.

As you grow older, you become - everybody becomes - less inflexible and a little more accommodating.

As I'm getting older, I feel like maybe I need to grow up a bit.

As I grow older, the idea takes increasing hold in me that we've misunderstood our own delicacy and diversity as human beings.

I didn't read reviews earlier in my career, but I read them now as I'm older. I read them all.

As you get older, as you become more sensitive, feel more, it becomes harder to make jokes. You censor yourself.

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.

When an audience takes to a song and it becomes older, in a way it changes it entirely. And then the journey just begins.

As you grow older, your music begins to mature and grow older along with you.