Even though you want to try to, never grow up

Get this in mind early: We never grow up.

Never grow up...always down.

All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up — that growing is an ever ongoing process.

Don't try to make me grow up before my time…

No one grows up. That’s one of the sickest lies they ever tell you. People change. People compromise. People get stranded in situations they don’t want to be in… and they make the best of it. But don’t try to tell me it’s some kind of… glorious preordained ascent into emotional maturity. It’s not.

Very few people grow up

I was wise enough never to grow up,
while fooling people into believing I had.

I don't want to become adult!

I don't want to be a grown-up. … Because grown-ups always say that things are complicated.

I don't grow up. In me is the small child of my early days.

I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had.

People don’t really want to grow up, people don’t really want to change, people don’t really want to be happy. As someone so wisely said to me, “Don’t try to make them happy, you’ll only get in trouble. Don’t try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it irritates the pig.

Men! What do they know? They never grow up.