Experience Quotes

Even the hard times are part of your life story. If you acknowledge them and move past them, they eventually add up to the experience that makes you wise.

This is a new point in my life, and things are totally changing. But like the sunsets I saw on Tybee Island, the miles I've already gone are going to stay with me.

Life is a journey that's measured not in miles or years but in experiences, and the route your life takes is built not of roads but of songs.

Any attempts at autobiography before the age of eighty seem pretty self-involved to me. There are a lot of smart middle aged people but not many wise ones.

I can only say the first thing that pops into my mind is I remember, years ago, seeing kind of a has-been country singer working - when I first moved to Nashville - in a bar in a Holiday Inn.

I went to Ealing Art School, in London, the year after Pete Townshend left. Music was a sideline to everything we did, and the school was a breeding ground for musicians.

My dad knew I was mad about music. While he worked as a barber he would hear songs on the radio and we'd have endless discussions about them. So I got my first record player when I was 11 years old.

I first sang 'Holding Back the Years' in my earliest band, Frantic Elevators. When the Elevators split and I started Simply Red, I returned to the song and wrote the 'I'll keep holding on' chorus.

I lived most of my life in Texas, but I've settled down in Pittsburgh. My husband is from here. We met at a Flyleaf show in Columbus.

It's a great, great experience to finally get the reception that you know you rightfully deserve.

There's a vintage which comes with age and experience.

New Jersey shaped who and what I am. Growing up in Jersey gave you all the advantages of New York, but you were in its shadow. Anyone who's come from here will tell you that same story.

I went to a radio station on Long Island in 1982, and thank goodness for me, it was so new that there was no receptionist. So the DJ opened up his booth, and took my tape and listened to it and thought it was a hit song.

I'd been round the world a hundred times and had started to forget where I'd been. I knew I'd been there: it said it on the tour map. I could remember the name of the city but I couldn't remember what it was like - it was a massive blur.

Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet.

It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down.

Of course I'm going to say 'I'm a thug,' that's because I came from the gutter and I'm still here!

If you could walk a mile in my shoes you'd be crazy too.

I'm not a gangsta rapper. I rap about things that happen to me. I got shot five times. People was trying to kill me.

I meet so many people that just sort of say, "I want to thank you for your music. It really helped me" or "It changed my life."