Nick Cave Quotes

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.

And I'm not as young as I once was. At my age, I don't have time to be bored.

I'm beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.

I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.

Your mid-thirties is a good time because you know a fair amount, you have some self-control.

One of the pluses of getting older is you set some limits.

The older you are, I think you realize what you enjoy and what you don't need, what wears you out and what's important.

Many years ago, I used to say, 'I haven't lived long enough to be great.' Now I don't say that.

The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show.

I've found that the older I get, the more spontaneous I become.

With time, you do get mature.

To me, with age, everything has gotten better. You have way more control; you know yourself better.

I've calmed down, certainly, from the days of being 18, but I'm still having a good time.

He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated.

Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.

Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you're younger but now I just think 'well everybody's absolutely mad and I'm doing quite well'.

I like getting older. When you're in your twenties you're really forging for your future. Things take shape later on.

I think I'm a little more mature than the average guy.

Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.

I think the only time I show my emotions and anger is on the cricket field; otherwise, I've mellowed down. And with age, I think, with age you always end up mellowing down.

I don't do anything I don't want to do. There are so many opportunities that come my way, but if there's something out there that I don't want to do, I truly don't do it, because I have to maximize my time. If there's truly an opportunity to be quiet and be by myself, I do it.

We neither get better or worse as we get older, but more like ourselves.

I've had a lot of 'aha' moments, but the big 'aha' about growing older is the mental freedom.

My mom calls me an older soul because, growing up, she taught me stuff real early. Now I spend most of my time chasing wisdom, chasing understanding.

When I was at drama school, I wanted to change the world, and thought I had some great wisdom to impart to people about humanity. Now that I'm older, I know enough to realise that I know nothing at all.