"Maybe it was all those wild times that kept me young"
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The phrase "wild times" is conveniently elastic. For Ward, it can mean the literal mania of 1960s pop stardom - the fan frenzy, the relentless publicity, the weirdness of being forever associated with Robin's bright, boyish energy. It can also gesture toward the less polished realities behind that candy-colored TV world: sudden attention, temptation, hustle, and the way fame compresses time into a blur of nights and anecdotes. By not specifying, he protects the private details while still cashing in on the thrill of them.
Subtextually, it's a negotiation with nostalgia. Ward's public image is permanently youthful because the culture froze him at a certain age, in a certain costume, in a show that treated danger like a joke. The line flips that trap into a kind of agency: maybe he stayed young because he kept choosing intensity, novelty, motion. It's a tidy way to turn aging - and being remembered - into something that sounds like an earned reward rather than a sentence.
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| Topic | Youth |
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Ward, Burt. (2026, January 17). Maybe it was all those wild times that kept me young. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/maybe-it-was-all-those-wild-times-that-kept-me-42893/
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Ward, Burt. "Maybe it was all those wild times that kept me young." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/maybe-it-was-all-those-wild-times-that-kept-me-42893/.
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"Maybe it was all those wild times that kept me young." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/maybe-it-was-all-those-wild-times-that-kept-me-42893/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.



