I’ve been around longer than most of my fans have been alive.

Sonnymoon and Quadrants are a couple of bands that really inspire me in terms of the melodics of things and certain tones and just what feels good. It takes me back to the type of music that I grew up on in my household. We played a lot of gangsta rap, but we also played a lot of oldies, and I think that mix is part of what inspires my sound.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.

Memory… is the diary that we all carry about with us.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

I’ve lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.

My secret to staying young… Having no sense of time.

In my early teens, I knew I wanted to do television production. I loved cameras, editing and producing, anything that had to do with television production. My friend had a production studio across town, and we’d go over there at night and shoot and edit. I produced my father’s televised service for 17 years.

I’m no longer just a candidate. I’m the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn’t return. I’ve shared the pain of families who’ve lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who’ve lost their jobs.

We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow’s nest of that ship.

Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.

I won’t have to do any major changes to continue my career a long way, hopefully. Just hopefully stay healthy and be able to help a team out as I go through and still play at a pretty high level.

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

Doing a show for three weeks is nothing like doing a show for seven seasons.

How we experience memory sometimes, it’s not linear. We’re not telling the stories to ourselves. We know the story; we’re just seeing it in flashes overlaid.

I don’t believe you could be a 39-year-old quarterback in the NFL and eat cheeseburgers every day. I want to be able to do what I love to do for a long time.

I’m proud to be an actor. See, as an actor, you live longer. Football players, the brain and all that stuff, ooh-eee, that’s not good.

Things ain’t what they used to be and never were.

Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.

Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.

Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments.

I had a rat-tail when I was younger. I had this nice Bobby Brown fade, with a rat-tail that was long enough to wrap around my face. I used to chew on the end and bite it.

The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily life. Not as an experience to be collected or bragged about – or as a ritual like filling up a car – but as something else that gives pleasure, like sex or music, or a good nap in the afternoon.

But I did ‚Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure.‘ They made a cereal out of it, so once you’ve had a cereal, it doesn’t get much more surreal than that. Surreal cereal.

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

I used to really love Fiend, but he stopped. He just stopped. Every time he had a project, every project – ‚There’s One In Every Family,‘ ‚Street Life‘ – I had to have them. And he just stopped. And that was disappointing, ‚cause that was my favorite rapper at one time.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Forty to 60 I would say is your prime. That’s when you know the most, you’ve seen the most, you understand the most, and you still have some physical energy.

Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.

This has been my life for many years; one role feeds the other.

Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.

Two things control men’s nature, instinct and experience.

It always seems to me so odd that when a man dies, he takes out with him all the knowledge that he has got in his lifetime whilst sowing his wild oats or winning successes. And he leaves his sons or younger brothers to go through all the work of learning it over again from their own experience.

The statesman’s duty is to bridge the gap between his nation’s experience and his vision.

There are definitely elements of experience and stuff that someone who’s my age wouldn’t have. But there are also things that I can do that other people wouldn’t necessarily be able to.

I remember coming to New York in 1974 to do a play here called ‚Equis.‘ And I remember the first morning getting up and walking around the streets, and I thought, ‚I’m home.‘ I felt really at peace here.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

Most of the people that I deal with are human. So I’ve had a lot of experience with that.

Doo-wop is special music to me because it’s so straightforward and melody-driven and captures emotions.

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

My goal in music is to create nostalgic moments.

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.

I don’t claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I’m home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, ‚Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.‘

When we build, let us think that we build for ever.

I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.

No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.

My childhood was endless – from eight to 18 felt like hundreds of years.

I prefer the old theaters because the audience is… trapped.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

I never listen to ‚Nevermind.‘ I haven’t listened to it since we put it out. That says something.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.

Letters are something from you. It’s a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail.

If you realize all the time what’s kind of wonderful – that is, if we expand our experience into wilder and wilder regions of experience – every once in a while, we have these integrations when everything’s pulled together into a unification, in which it turns out to be simpler than it looked before.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

No traveler, whether a tree lover or not, will ever forget his first walk in a sugar-pine forest. The majestic crowns approaching one another make a glorious canopy, through the feathery arches of which the sunbeams pour, silvering the needles and gilding the stately columns and the ground into a scene of enchantment.

I really miss being able to blend in with people.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.