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I don't like being 50 and I don't like thinking about death.

A lot happens at 50, the best thing being that you just don't care anymore. At 40, you still care. At 30, you care way too much - and your twenties are quite frankly a nightmare. Bring on 60, I say: just imagine the joy of having grandchildren.

I'm too young at 50. I'm not grown up yet. There's part of everybody like that.

When you are 25 or even 30, you can just do things. When you get to 35, things are different. Time is more precious to me now. I've got my priorities.

Turning 50 is a little bit of a 'taking stock' moment. I feel probably a little dumber. I don't think I'm as sharp as I was when I was younger, but I'm definitely wiser and less likely to make gigantic blunders of an intellectual, spiritual, emotional or physical type.

The real problem is that there's a tendency to associate ageing with loss and decline and things that aren't desirable. But experiencing all that there is to experience in life - whether that's at the age of ten or thirty or fifty or eighty - is what life is all about.

I like being 30. I wouldn't want to do the twenties again. They are their own entity.

When you reach a certain age in life, time becomes more important than money, and I think that happens in your 50s.

At 50 you're more confident, more comfortable in your skin and you don't put up with nonsense, especially from men.

Mortality is very different when you're 20 to when you're 50.