Lucinda Williams Quotes

I also think within the scene, a specific scene - if I were to play a part that I played 10 years ago now, my interpretation of that scene would be totally different. I would be making different choices. Because I can't somehow subtract all of the experiences that I've had in my life. And it's fascinating to see, because somewhere I'm very reflective in that. You know, I've been playing basically actually close to 40 years old, so I'm somewhere lost in age in this movie. But it's been fascinating to see that I can't subtract that time.

There is no change - I'm as deep or as shallow as I ever was. What's new is on-the-job experience. This is what you gain with years.

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

Along with age comes more confidence, so it kind of works out.

I had more energy at 50. On the other hand, at 75, I've probably got a little more wisdom and good judgment than I had at 50 because I've got more experience. But I haven't really changed. I'm still driven by the same philosophy.

It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on.

I don't think I've changed since I was a little kid.

Back when I was an idealistic 18-year-old on my way to Chicago, I might have believed that being on the side of virtue would guarantee a good outcome. These many years later, I know better.

With time, you do get mature.

My poetry doesn't change from place to place - it changes with the years. It's very important to be one's age. You get ideas you have to turn down - 'I'm sorry, no longer'; 'I'm sorry, not yet.

I'm still proud of the 'Fionavar Tapestry.' The fact I don't write the same way is as much as anything else the fact a man in his 50s doesn't write the way a man in his 20s does - or he shouldn't.

My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn.

I seriously feel like the best days are ahead, and I like the idea of getting to do everything I did before but with more knowledge, experience, and street smarts. There's a certain love, appreciation, and gratitude that you have at 40 that you don't have when you're younger, and it makes every accomplishment feel so much better.

I remember when I was 33 or 34, it was devastating because I realized I wasn't a kid anymore. The great thing about 40 was that I really felt like I had life experience and knew what I was doing now.

Between 21-30 women go through humungous changes. After that, they've generally achieved what they wanted, and they're more settled.

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.

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.

I'm an old man of 73, and I've been around a long time. If I don't know something by now, I probably never will.

People tend to repeat the same quotes at me that I said when I was 23. And of course, you say things then, and sometimes they're ill-advised.

I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.

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.

Life deals you a lot lessons, some people learn from it, some people don't.

I think for all of us, as we age, there are always a few moments when you are shocked.