Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been.
It's rather amusing at my advanced age to become a sex symbol.
Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they were sentimental, that they were pandering to the audience and trying to manipulate the audience. I had no use for practically any of the shows that were hits.
The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income.
I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.
Parenting is an impossible job at any age.
It's wonderful to me that bees have this simple, age-old thing going on.
So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!
It has been suggested at various times that I should start an operation in the United Kingdom but - bearing in mind my age and medical history - I think this would be not a very sensible way to go forward.
Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.
Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad.
Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.
This is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism.
For me from a pretty young age up until about 21 years old hallucinogenics had a huge place in my life.
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.