Nick Cave Quotes

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

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.

I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music.

In the past I had to deal with issues that hit me as a younger man. As a man who wasn't married who didn't really have the experience that I have now. Today I'm a different guy.

Each decade, I've lived in that decade, so I could easily shed the '20s, the '30s, the '40s.

I've watched my peers get better with age and hoped that would happen with me.

I was trying to write an autobiography using prints and patterns that reference emotional, psychological, and personal development in my work, as a person growing up, figuring out who I was. I used fabrics to stand in for occurrences.

When I was young, I thought I wouldn't be a good mother. Now I think I would be, but I'm too long in the tooth.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

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

As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.

When I'm 80 and sitting in a rocking chair listening to the Rolling Stones, there is absolutely no way I'm going to feel old or forget my younger days.

Think back to yourself at age 18. I know I was mighty different than the Patti I am today. As we grow up, we grow out of our haircuts, our apartments and - often times - our romantic decisions.

I hope before I am getting too old and when my mind is still functioning, I can tell some better stories.

It's taken me longer still to realize what a short span there is between those life experiences and the rest of your life. That's a job for the people who lived through it.

I'm in a position to look back at my life, and I realized there were a number of experiences that needed to be documented.

Maybe something that's acceptable in your teens or 20s is unacceptable in your 30s or 40s.

Most writers, by the time they're 60, must have revisited their childhood a dozen times.

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

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Since puberty I've always had this strange awareness that all the keener experiences I would have in my life would happen later than it would to my contemporaries. When it came to the career thing, I never worried about it. It's better if you're still peaking when you're 60, which I feel I am.

So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what one has seen, grows upon most of us.

I don't know how you get to be 40 without having a whole bunch of regrets.

Let me just say, as I've gotten older, the parts have gotten better.

I don't think my music has changed to reflect getting married or having kids. But... if you want to continue to write your own songs, you've got to find deeper stuff to write about. You've got to go to different places.