I hope to find the roles that are age appropriate but not yearning to be younger, or parenting ad nauseam.

I try to write lyrics so that they won't age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and love and sex and violence.

In the modern media age we are rarely surprised by what we see. Whether it's on television or film or in the theatre, everything is so advertised, so trailed, that most entertainment is merely what you thought it was going to be like.

Your 40s are a major trough. About the age of 50, feelings of satisfaction begin to rebound and keep rising into your 50s, 60s and 70s, with health being a major factor.

I came back to work when my children were two months old. At that early age, they seem to have little awareness of anybody but their Raggedy Ann dolls, so it wasn't a matter of them missing me. I was missing them.

Being successful at a very young age gave me the confidence and the capability to try out other things.

About the time I turned 50, I experienced the profound biological change that often accompanies women at that age. Also, I put two kids in college and lost both of my parents, so I'm no longer somebody's daughter.

I feel more mature than most people my age.

Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.

Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age.