I think you have to be a little bit strict. You can not be friend and their parent in a lot of situations, especially in this day and age where it is so dangerous for kids. So there is a bit of sternness, I guess, in the way I raise my kids.

In the 1970s and 1980s there was so little decent fiction for young people, but we are now in a golden age that shows no sign of fading. Philip Pullman, J. K. Rowling, Lemony Snicket are only three of the best known among a good number of equals.

I want to sell to people my own age, because that is the way I write songs.

You get to a certain age and you just want to prove that you can still rock - that you've still got it.

I always thought that I might retire from any form of sexuality by the age of 40 and just become a dignified older person.

It is only at this age that I can say the word art without flinching.

Well, once you've resigned yourself to the fact that you are the more mature pop performer and you are past the age you ever thought you would do it, you might as well do it as long as you can. As long as I can still lift a microphone, then I will do it, you know.

I hope to have one more boxing match at the age of 55. Given that demographic at the age of 55 to 65, you've got to make a statement with your life. Otherwise, you are just existing.

I think it is hard, the fact that there is a certain age that we can not have kids anymore.

While I had often said that I wanted to die in bed, what I really meant was that in my old age I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love.

I basically started playing violin at the age of six. That lasted about three years because my previous teacher died and the second teacher did not really know how to successfully get me going.

Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline.

I have had to be a man since I was 12 or 13. I had a job. And I was playing the piano for people twice my age. Handling responsibility is what makes a man a man.

Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternative.

Up until age 40, most men are just not as mature as women. So, it makes sense that a lot of women date up in age a bit.

Think back to yourself at age 18. I know I was mighty different than the Patti I am today. As we grow up, we grow out of our haircuts, our apartments and - often times - our romantic decisions.

I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I did not want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I did not want a boss.

Regardless of age, regardless of position, regardless of the business we happen to be in, all of us need to understand the importance of branding. We are CEOs of our own companies: Me, Inc. To be in business today, our most important job is to be head marketer for the brand called You.

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.

I have always felt that sexuality is a really slippery thing. In this day and age, it tends to get categorized and labeled, and I think labels are for food. Canned food.