Loudon Wainwright III Quotes

I suppose I was waiting until I was old enough to have some sort of experience to sing about. When you're young, it's hard to sing the blues. Nobody believes you.

One wouldn't want to have the same dilemmas at 50 as one had at 15. And indeed I don't. I have a very different take on life.

I don't know if it's that the scripts are evolving or just that I'm getting older, but the characters become more interesting as you get older because you've lived more life at different stages. You've loved; you've lost; you have more of that journey.

At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.

Whether it's 18 years old or 40 years old, we think we know what's going on. But if you're lucky enough to continue the journey, its amazing how we keep learning how much we didn't know.

A few years ago, I got to a point where I realised that the only way you can tell someone's age is how they live their life. The candles on the cake mean absolutely nothing.

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more.

As you age, you have this vast cauldron of experience to draw from. Some of the experiences are great; some of them you wish you'd never had. But all of them shape the work that you do and the person you become. It's just inevitable.

By the time we've hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons.

At 40 years old you simply know what life is about.

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

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

I don't think you can sing about certain things when you're a teen-ager or in your early 20s, because you haven't lived long enough. So I think living gives you character and that comes out in your voice.

The older you get, of course, the knowingness of the truth - the ownership of knowing - is louder.

I love getting older. I think it has to do with always being the kid on set.

I've become a lot wiser over the years.

There are creative benefits to getting older.

You can't say when you are 25 years old that you know everything. You don't.

A bit of perspective and life experience isn't a bad thing.

Who am I to judge is what I say. I'm 90 years old, for crying out loud, and I don't sit in any chariot.

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.

Some days, you feel like a 22-year-old and some days you feel like a 40-year-old.

Age shouldn't affect you. It's just like the size of your shoes - they don't determine how you live your life! You're either marvellous or you're boring, regardless of your age.