El-P Quotes

I'm not a diva. I'm a tadpole trying to be a frog.

My life has been about big changes.

I think all my movies are about transitions to some degree.

A home is a place in time. And no place stays the same after you finally grow up and leave it. No place can ever change as much as the person who grows up there.

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly

I might add that you change as a person as you grow older, so you change as a writer, too.

I want to change a lot.

We all have to change with the times... it keeps you younger; it's a new challenge.

When you are through changing, you are through.

The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.

Statistics vary, but in less than seven years there won't be a single cell left in any of our bodies that's the same as it is today. This means that any human being who 'wants' to change is like a mountain river wanting to reach the valley floor. It's a done deal; that's what mountain rivers do, and 'changing' should be our first nature.

When I reflect on how things have changed, I can't help but laugh.

What's interesting to me is the distinction between my old life and my present life.

One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.

I have been a multitude of shapes, Before I assumed a consistent form.

Every day I'm thinking about change.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

Let a man turn to his own childhood - no further - if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.

Because I'm not the same today as I was in '58, or '59 or even '71.

It's the same as Keith Richards. People still ask him the same questions they asked him 30 years ago, even though he's a completely different person. And I'm a completely different person than I was 15 years ago.

From 15 to 18, everybody is a different person. Every six months, I have a whole new outlook on life.

I'm constantly surprised when people say, 'But you haven't changed!' It's like saying, 'You've got a wheel. Now why don't you make it a square?'

At the end of a song, someone's always different than they are at the beginning.

Nearly a decade of time is enough for everybody to change, quite a bit.