Edie Sedgwick Quotes

The fact is that this conversation is going on at every level at every age, we're all going, "God, what a jerk I've been," "How could I have married that guy?" or "How could I have done this or that?" With time, this is the gift of being older, that you get to look back and say, "It wasn't all about them."

I tell people not to write too soon about their lives. Writing about yourself too young is loaded with psychological complexities.

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 early 2000s, I was going through a lot. I didn't have my head screwed on right. Where I was at as a man, I was still growing up.

I think I can see more clearly now - about how the pattern of past experiences has shaped who I am and the characters I have played - and I'm grateful for that.

The good part about getting older is you stop trying to prove anything to anyone, including yourself. All you are in the pursuit of is collecting experiences - beautiful, fragile little soap bubbles that you store in your heart, and every once in a while you pull one out and gaze at the delicate pictures it shows you.

Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.

I'm not sure whether I've been happy. After my last book tour, I sat on my balcony with a cup of tea. I thought: 'You can't rewind the movie. I've spent more than half my life in the Middle East. There have been great moments of horror and depression and loneliness.'

You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to see that the girl of nineteen who thought herself a genius was only an unusual girl writing her heart out.

One of the things that is devastating is I realise I haven't been living a different life than when I was, like, 12. I'm shocked at how reclusive I've been since then. I was unaware of it until recently.

I don't think men figure out what they're really about until they're 25. That's when they start to feel like themselves.

Recently I read the stories I wrote in my early 20s, to put in a volume. And here is this brittle young woman, writing about marriage as, not the worst thing, but the most boring thing that could happen to a person. Now I think I was wrong. I like to be proven wrong.

As I get older, the more I don't want my life to be emotionally out of balance in the way it was in my twenties.

I was 20 years old and felt I had a lot to offer, even to myself.

After adolescence, if one's life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.

I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.

I'm less Pollyanna now. That's probably healthy.

You don't become a fully-formed human as a female, or even a male, until you're at least 30.

When I passed the age of 50, I learned how to control my emotions.

I've been in therapy. I know enough about myself now to know that I really don't need to know anymore.

Through therapy and a lot of thinking and writing my memoirs, I've been able to use my life as a lesson.

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

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

When I was younger, I thought I was too young to really be personal. I thought that what I was feeling and thinking might be half-baked.

I lived my twenties in a very public manner and if anyone's twenties are documented it's not always going to be pretty.