Robert Caro Quotes

I have not an ounce of regret. Every link is so valuable in forming the chain that is my life. Who I am today is because of those links, and I wouldn't change any of them.

I used to think, 'How can I write my life story? I'm still living it.'

My father wasn't around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, 'Why me? Why don't I have a father? Why isn't he around? Why did he leave my mother?' But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, 'I don't know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?'

You try things on in life. You wear them for a while, and you see what's next.

It gets easier as you get older because life deals its particular hand, and our experiences get deeper, richer, more profound. When I gave birth to my son, something happened. It is a huge thing for a woman: a whole set of emotions you never had before arrives, and a love you never had before in your life is now on tap.

I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.

I felt that with 'In A Perfect World' I was still kind of finding myself - not just as a musician, but also in love and in life.

My whole life has been one of seeking experience.

I've experienced great things, I've experienced great tragedies. I've done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there's more.

Living in different cultures helped me work out who I was going to be, separate from where I came from.

I'd never walked on snow 'til I was 50, you know. There's no snow where I come from.

I am so enriched because so much has happened in my life. The way I can express myself is because of the life I have led. It's only when you experience life can you emote it.

And I went through a lot of detours and I took a lot of roads and things so yes, that's all there, but it's not meant to be shocking or telltale.

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

I was 25 before I joined the world, in my opinion. I was a very late developer, and everything came late.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.

I didn't write anything until I was well over 30.

I didn't get on TV until I was 30, which is really fortunate because you are who you are at that point.

It has been an interesting road, but I wouldn't trade any of it for the world, because I feel like all of those instances in my life I felt molded me and strengthened me and made me who I am.

Everything that I've done has made me who I am today. You know, it's cliche, but it's true.

Many things have been said about what happened, but I don't know either. Maybe someday. One thing I'm sure of is that all the things that have happened to me, good and bad, happy and sad, have made me what I am today.

I've been things and seen places.

My first book was called, 'Mountain, Get Out of My Way,' where I did an autobiographical sketch, if you will, looking back at myself and looking back at things in my life, and juxtaposing them against things that are happening in other people's lives and trying to be motivational.

I'm always looking for something. Not in an unhappy way. I just like to try different things. I don't want to be morbid, but I'm not getting any younger.