Alexa Chung Quotes

I was way behind in my maturity. I was a 30-year-old acting like a 23-year-old. So when I was 21, I was probably acting like a 15-year-old.

I've always had a maturity level different than guys my age.

I always felt older than my years, maybe because I was married to someone older.

I lived a very isolated life. When you start at 20, you have a lot of nonsense to work out of your system.

I used to just write about my own apathy, but that youthful, apathetic way of looking at things grew thin as I got older.

I think, you know, when you're a teenager, sometimes your emotions are a little bit more drastic than maybe when you're in your 20s. You sort of level out a little bit.

Even the people I surround myself with... are wiser, a little bit older than me, where before, all my boyfriends were younger.

When you're physically growing up, you develop emotionally with that.

As I get older, the more I don't want my life to be emotionally out of balance in the way it was in my twenties.

I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music.

I'm less Pollyanna now. That's probably healthy.

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.

The more you've lived, the more you've experienced, you emotionally know a lot more, especially if you haven't had a regular, straightforward kind of life.

When I passed the age of 50, I learned how to control my emotions.

I started dating older men, and I would fall in love with them. I thought they could teach me about life.

When you start acting as a child, you grow up ahead of your movies.

When you're younger - duh - you don't really have the tools to deal with certain things in your life.

People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature.

I think I feel a little differently than other people do. For some reason I've never felt grown up.

Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up.

When I think of myself at 15, even 17, I could simply not have done this work on an international level and travel all the time, take care of myself and not feel lost. I feel very happy that this is happening now, and not 10 years ago, as I feel stronger as a person.

When we're 16, we have lots of heavy thoughts. And these are the heavy thoughts, where, when we're in our 30s, we look at 16-year olds and sort of scorn it.

Granted, I've changed internally as I've gotten older - I take it easy, I know when to stop and take care of myself, I laugh much more and with my belly and soul - but this comes from the confidence and acceptance that comes with maturity.

It took me a long time to grow up.

I think when you get to a certain age, older people become more emotional than younger people.