Ginuwine Quotes

At my age, I'm not trying to score cool points. I'm just excited when I can speak to younger members of our audience in the WWE. I just get to be a superhero to kids, but I'm not trying to be on the cutting edge of style or anything like that. Once you reach that point of deprivation, you don't mind it.

I want to tell everybody that you won't hear me trying to pop bottles in the club and all that kind of stuff. It's just not me and I think as long as you stay within your element and your age bracket, sure you're going a couple of young folks and teens, but that's not who I'm focused on. I'm really not. I love whoever supports, but I'm just not going to try and go back there because times have changed. If you don't move with the times, you'll get left off. I'm trying to change with the times.

I had a great time in my youth and I still feel youthful. I've no desire to look as though I'm in my 20s.

You know you're old when someone compliments you on your alligator shoes, and you're barefoot.

You know, traditional country music is something that's going to be around forever... I'm not worried about it.

I'm a little bit out of it, I suppose; I'm more of the golden oldie type.

Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time.

I prefer the rather old and battered, things with character, to the brand new.

It's more fun to look at an old picture of me than it is to look at a new one sometimes. Although, I still wear a dress pretty well.

I've never been willing to lie about my age. Why on earth would I want to tell people I'm 35, which I'm not, and have them say, 'Oh that's nice,' when I could tell them I'm 47, which I am, and have them look at me and go, 'Whoa!'. I'm not afraid of aging. I stopped being afraid of life a long time ago.

It is easily overlooked that what is now called vintage was once brand new.

Believe me, I've totally blown any kind of so-called reputation I may have had. I really don't care. I think that's one of the joys of getting older; you just stop caring about things like that.

For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.

One of the reasons for me that there's no 'Spaced 3' is that I don't think you can pretend to be 26 for ever.

Everybody is so anti-aging, but I don't want to look younger than I am. Our face is a map of our life; the more that's there, the better.

People are like, 'Nothing you've done is as good as you did when you were younger.' And I'm like, 'You may be right.'

It's amazing, seeing people of all different ages singing lyrics to songs we wrote when we were so young and thought we knew everything.

As me being somebody that makes arguably nostalgic music, I cannot stand when somebody tries to make old music just to sound old.

They treat my stuff like wine. It just gets better with time.

We didn't want to change who we are. We're not going to sit there and go, 'Let's be a rap band now.'

I always go back to old vinyl albums I loved, and that's sort of the aim I had with 'Hero' - just to make it look classic and feel like me, but also timeless in a way.

A few things I've noticed about myself as a listener, and the music that I relate to and the music that's continued to mean something to me since I was a little kid or a teenager, is that they're songs that tell stories and songs that come from a place of experience.

I'm definitely a veteran. No question. And it always makes me laugh when the younger guys tell me they remember where they were when I contested a certain match. It makes me feel old, but it's cool to hear that.

Has the gift of laughter been withdrawn from me? I protest that I do still, at the age of forty-seven, laugh often and loud and long. But not, I believe, so long and loud and often as in my less smiling youth. And I am proud, nowadays, of laughing, and grateful to any one who makes me laugh. That is a bad sign. I no longer take laughter as a matter of course.

I try to stay as young as these rookies are.It feels a bit strange not to be anymore the youngster I used to be. But I'm okay with it. Mostly, I enjoy being on the pitch with so many talented players around me.