Top 30 Adam Young Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Reality is a lovely place, but I wouldn’t want to live there.”

— Adam Young

2. “Life isn’t how you survive the thunderstorm, but how you dance in the rain.”

— Adam Young

3. “I am fallen, flawed and imperfect. Yet drenched in the grace and mercy that is found in Jesus Christ, there is strength.”

— Adam Young

4. “If you can fly, don’t stop at the sky, ’cause there’s footprints on the moon!”

— Adam Young

5. “Stay in the Word. The moment you start letting go of that, you’re on the road to compromise. Stay grounded, remain pure, keep your eyes fixed on Jesus.”

— Adam Young

6. “You’ve got mountains of your own, I’ll bet on it. Take heart. Be encouraged. Remain steadfast. Hang on for dear life. You’ve got a better grip than you realize.”

— Adam Young

7. “Writing music is like tasting the sky. It keeps me dreaming in color.”

— Adam Young

8. “Time. There is much time left and lots of life seasons. There is much to see, to do, and to be.”

— Adam Young

9. “I live alone in a house, so for me it’s very good to just be able to re-charge and just disappear and escape from reality and that’s usually when I write most of my lyrics and my songs. It’s a very happy productive place.”

— Adam Young

10. “When you write, produce, engineer and mix everything yourself, it tends to take a long time to do anything. And when you’re a perfectionist little monster, it makes it even harder. But it’s a blast and I wouldn’t trade the opportunity for all the ice cream sandwiches in the universe.”

— Adam Young

11. “Today I fell asleep reading a book. The book is called INSOMNIA. I win.”

— Adam Young

12. “I kind of tend to do most of my adventures in my mind.”

— Adam Young

13. “I’m scared to death that I’ll never be afraid.”

— Adam Young

14. “I built you a sandcastle because you’re a princess, but I tore it down because I’m a loser.”

— Adam Young

15. “Sometimes the good fight feels impossible, but I for one, am NOT giving up.”

— Adam Young

16. “It’s very cool for me to be able to get in an airplane and fly for fourteen hours and show up in a place I never thought I’d ever be and have kids in the same room singing these songs I’d written so far away. To me, that’s so surreal.”

— Adam Young

17. “Maybe some are so busy waiting, they forget what indescribable beauty is right there in front of them.”

— Adam Young

18. “I tend to have to just get away from it all, so it is nice when touring to be able to come home for a week or two and close the door and not really see anybody.”

— Adam Young

19. “For me, it’s always best to just push everything out and just disappear by myself alone somewhere – and it’s kind of like a need of mine.”

— Adam Young

20. “Usually, whatever’s in front of me is what I’m focused on and it’s 100% on that and then I kind of move from one thing to the next. Like, if I go to a restaurant and I order food, I always just eat one thing at a time.”

— Adam Young

21. “Someone invent a NO LIFE alert so you can push a button and tons of people show up and hang out with you.”

— Adam Young

22. “I’m a very introverted guy, so I don’t need to be around people for as long as someone who’s very extroverted to get that sort of social fix per se.”

— Adam Young

23. “I really do like surprises. I’m not so talented at planning things out or having schedules before or sticking to the plan per se, but yeah I’m very much a spontaneous guy and it’s sort of hard for me to multi-task and to have all these things going on at once.”

— Adam Young

24. “I’d probably go to see Saturn first-thing and see as close to those rings as I can get and see if I can fly by one of them and try and put one of my hands through them.”

— Adam Young

25. “There is no old Adam Young, there is no new Adam Young, merely different colors and? different brushstrokes over the same canvas.”

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26. “Only whispers can tell of the sweet dreams we knew so well. I’ll see you around our dear ocean town.”

— Adam Young

27. “A boy and a girl started dating after he backed his car into hers. They met by accident.”

— Adam Young

28. “When you listen to someone sing from inside their head, their same mix, and you listen to their voice as loud as they like it, or the track of the band as low as they like it, you can really hear all of the nuances and the mistakes if there are any.”

— Adam Young

29. “When I was a small boy, old people used to squat down to my eye level and ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up, to which my answer was invariably, “a pirate.” Their stunned silence was always very reassuring.”

— Adam Young

30. “I’m a studio guy. That’s really what I love the most. I’m so fascinated with audio gear and recording techniques and whatnot, it’s pretty mesmerizing.”

— Adam Young

31. “You work so hard at something to make sure that it’s very pure and very genuine and very steadfast to who you are, so creative control for me is a big one. Thankfully, I’ve been able to retain 98% of it which I never really expected, so I’m very grateful to be able to control what I can.”

— Adam Young

32. “He: “Whale you be my valentine?” She: “Dolphinitely.”

— Adam Young

33. “Sailboats with they were stars, floating softly through the sky, among our dreams that pay goodbye.”

— Adam Young