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I don't feel as if I belong to an age group.

Treating an age group as a demographic requires coming up with something that's common to every single one of them. Right?... So it's reductionist in that it reduces an entire segment of civilization down to one person with one habit.

Teenagers ultimately don't mind belonging to a group, because there's always the opportunity to eventually become someone new. The elderly, by definition, are running out of opportunities for reinvention.

I don't think age has anything to do with what you write about.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

I don't like age barriers. I don't like when people treat you differently when they find out how old you are.

I'm sure that is a reason why young people occasionally bash up old people - because the ages don't mix any more.

I think age is just something written down on a piece of paper. I mean, you come across 20-year-olds who are like old people sometimes. I've never taken much account of age throughout my life - my own or anyone else's.

I guess there are some women who like older men, but it's a smaller group.

We tend to think of age only in time, but I don't think it has much to do with time at all; there's a whole load of other things. I've met 16-year-olds who are old and 90-year-olds who are young.