Quotes about "Youth & Coming of Age"

I've put my life back together, but it's all a growing process and that's neat, too, because if you stop growing, what good is it musically? So that is what I am looking forward to - growing. In some ways, I felt stagnant in my life and it showed. ”

Some of us can be examples about going ahead and growing, and some of us, unfortunately, don't make it there, and end up being examples because they had to die. I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death. ”

When I was growing up, I was always looking for the most willfully uncommercial music: Whether it was Captain Beefheart or Frank Zappa or King Crimson, that's what attracted me. ”

My fifth record is, in many ways, inspired by the hugely ambitious progressive pop records that I loved in my youth. ”

Born to Run' was a mixture of things but mostly about youth and fantasies. ”

I grew up in New York, in the Village, and I started going to Stella Adler pretty young. I was 13 or 14 years old. But I was also really shy when I was growing up. ”

That's such a great thing about New York, after growing up in a place and being there for twenty plus years, there's still a whole island to discover. ”

I made 'Saving Private Ryan' for my father. He's the one who filled my head with war stories when I was growing up. ”

I missed my dad a lot growing up, even though we were together as a family. My dad was really a workaholic. And he was always working. ”

In the re-creation of combat situations, and this is coming from a director who's never been in one, being mindful of what these veterans have actually gone through, you find that the biggest concern is that you don't look at war as a geopolitical endeavor. ”