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Eventually I lost the idea that I could have a career. I thought I was too old.

I've spent various periods of my career being thought of as various things, various degrees of substance and ideas.

The thing is, I wasn't surrounded by lots of people who were helping me build a career.

I've never really had much of a career plan, and interesting opportunities kept cropping up.

I came into the industry at a time when there weren't a lot of choices to what you could do.

I never really had a career, to be honest with you. I never in my life sat down and planned it. I have thought, 'Oh, I'd like to do this,' like anybody would. But I'm not the type that says, 'If I do this, it will lead to that.'

I've never been good at making smart career decisions or doing the right strategic thing, and yet somehow it's all led me to exactly the kind of career that I would have dreamed of having - if only I'd been smart enough to dream something like that.

I certainly feel my career was a great career because it inspired so many many people, literally hundreds of people to follow a new kind of life and to realize that they could make out and advance their own professional and private and social lives.

It's this idea that success changes you as a person... I've never seen my career that way.

I'm not sure I had a political career for the future anyway. I'm not sure that politics was what I wanted to spend my life doing.