Since an early age I was taught to be very politically aware and knew from childhood that the process was something I wanted to contribute towards if I could.
No matter what your age is, you only have now. So it's always about living in the moment and being in the moment... I refuse to let those numbers define me, and I just try to face each day positively.
To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.
Stop living a day at a time and stop worrying about age.
I can remember at the age of about six being fascinated by the planets and learning all about Mars and Venus and things.
I was discovered in Paris when I was there on a school trip at the age of 13. After that, my mom came in contact with Elite Amsterdam; then I started modeling.
You have to age gracefully. And that's what I love about Keith Richards. That's what I love about the Rolling Stones. They are aging gracefully. They are falling apart at the seams right before our eyes, and they are doing it gracefully. And that's the most beautiful thing that we can do.
Age steals away all things, even the mind.
It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.
They that have lived a single day have lived an age.
It doesn't matter what age you are, an effective song will move you.
I shot my first lion at the age of 14 when a pride threatened my father's livestock while he was away on holiday.
American Idol transcends age, gender, ethnicity, everything.
Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.
The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.
I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.
Now is the age of anxiety.
In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.
Here's what my CV usually does not say: I was trained as a teacher. My first job lasted less than 60 days. I was an assistant professor at a good college at Delhi University, but I found it very political, very suffocating. At the age of 23, you're not very tolerant of those things.
Maybe the best example of the unmuscled hero is Humphrey Bogart in 'Casablanca.' Bogart was 15 years older than Ingrid Bergman, and it did not matter at all. He had the experience, the confidence, the internal strength that can only come with age.
I do fear for the generations of people who came of age thinking that pop-punk is what punk is, and that all the rebellion you need is just to stick your tongue out in the mirror every once in a while.
I'm not focused on radio or whether I'm going to get all the audiences... all I wanted were great songs that were universal to any listener - Black, White, Green, Yellow; any kind a age difference.
I just kept it real and had the freedom to do what I want. It's not designed for any age group. It's not made for radio. There are no edits. The whole album contains explicit lyrics but that's because you need it.
I'm totally into new age and self-help books. I used to work in a bookstore and that's the section they gave me, and I got way into it. I just loved the power of positive thinking, letting yourself go.
In the Internet age, it is inevitable that corporations and government agencies will have access to detailed information about people's lives.
Once I had learnt my twelve times table (at the age of three) it was downhill all the way.
Old age is no place for sissies.
At the age of 21, I had never even stepped on a treadmill.
Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same.
Most people my age, their musical life ended in the '80s. They stick with what they know. But my tastes are much broader. And I don't want to stop learning.
I created Punk for this day and age. Do you see Britney walking around wearing ties and singing punk? Hell no. That's what I do. I'm like a Sid Vicious for a new generation.
For me, the end of childhood came when the number of candles on my birthday cake no longer reflected my age, around 19 or 20. From then on, each candle came to represent an entire decade.
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.
My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
This age of terror will end one day, but whether our society can restore the feeling of freedom that once was our birthright is hard to predict.
There's this Bruno Mars guy. I met him in Hawaii when was doing Elvis imitations at the age of about five or six years old. There's a lot of old school in him. He's got a depth that I just love.
