You get to a certain age and you can not judge yourself on your dad or your parents.

I do like to look like Madonna when I am her age. I also look at athletes and love their bodies. I have always wanted to be muscly, not skinny. A lot of women yo-yo around, but I am always aware if I am getting a bit out of shape. I never look at the scales but I can just tell. It goes on my tum and bum.

I could always sing, from a really young age, but my voice was really weird. I used to make my mum turn up the radio every day in our house. She was well into music so I got that from her.

I think women get caught up too much in having a plan - I am going to get married at this age I am going to have a kid at this age - and then they just try to find a guy who will fit into that picture. I do not want my life to be based on that.

I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along.

Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we do not begin thinking about education in the early years, our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten.

When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.

Music has always been my protection against the world, from a very young age. I feel safe inside of a jam.

We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed.

Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology.

Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it is more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race.

The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too.

Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.

I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.

We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there is almost a sense of entitlement to that.

It is the golden age of French cinema again but it is because Sarkozy had the guts to push through copyright law.

I started in the restaurant business at the age of 19 as a waitress. I loved the atmosphere and the camaraderie of the restaurant business. I loved not having to go to an office. I loved making people happy.

My view is pensioners do not have the one option that people of working age have. They can not really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.

Work is transformative. It gives you a greater chance of a greater income. You can affect your life while you are of working age, so you have scope and opportunity. Pensioners do not.

I think you can not really escape any kind of spiritual education as a child, whether it is New Age or Judaism or Buddhism or whatever it is. You can not escape it, even if you completely disagree with it, you still have it as a foundation that you base things off of.