Nicola Griffith Quotes

I'm a grown-up now, and I value the training I had.

When you've had a chance to live some experiences then you can really write, and not having lived that much when I was young I didn't have much to write about. Now having seen life, the songs seem to come easier.

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

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.

There are things that you write when you're 20 and there are things that you write when you're 40 and then there are things that you write when you're old.

It's so much more interesting having life under your belt.

When I was younger, I took life much more seriously.

I think all my life's story is condensed in my face. It is neither innocent nor coy. It speaks volumes.

Over time, you accumulate a lot of life material.

I had to have experience, you know what I mean? Because I've been doing this since I was 14... I couldn't write about anything at 14. I had to live some life. I definitely lived some life.

I think that as you get older, you mellow out a lot more. Having been through the ups and downs in life, I feel more qualified to play the blues.

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.

You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.

I'm excited about turning 40. I've been an adult for a long time, but there is a difference between being an adult and being a grown-up. I'm someone's mummy now and I'm enjoying that. I feel as if I'm about to hit my peak.

Life is not quantifiable in terms of age, but I suppose in my fifties I am more grounded and more at ease in my own skin than when I was younger. I have a confidence that I didn't have before from the experiences I've had.

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.

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

The more you've lived, the more you've experienced, you emotionally know a lot more, especially if you haven't had a regular, straightforward kind of life.

I like to deal in the reality of life. I'm too old to sing about women and things like that.

You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.

I've had 60 years of ups and downs, and all of the downs that I've had, I'm happy that I've had them because it's taught me to appreciate all the ups.

I have seen quite a lot of things in life. I would not like to change anything. Because every moment of my life has taught me something.

People are different when they're 30 than they are when they're 16.

We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.

Every experience makes you a man.