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Aging gracefully is one thing, but trying to slow it down is another.

The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren't as black and white, and you become much more tolerant. You can see the good in things much more easily rather than getting enraged as you used to do when you were young.

We know in the field of aging that some people tend to senesce, or grow older, more rapidly than others, and some more slowly.

You get old, you slow down.

I'm mellower now, I'm over 50. But I don't think I'm too mellow. I'm still angry at a lot of things.

It is important from time to time to slow down, to go away by yourself, and simply be.

As I get older, I'm slowing down and, yes, calming down in my desire to be taken seriously. That I can be entertaining and funny and high nervous energy can work against me as a serious composer, slowly but surely you'll see me be quieter just so that people will listen.

In getting older, I find myself becoming progressively more ineffectual in a lot of different ways, and part of that is down to no longer having the youthful feeling that what you're doing has any true impact.