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Every age sort of has its own history. History is really the stories that we retell to ourselves to make them relevant to every age. So we put our own values and our own spin on it.

I think people deceive themselves about themselves, particularly as they get older.

Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.

I think whatever generation you're in has a nostalgia for the generations past and the generations you weren't in.

But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.

It's not like I pretend the past doesn't exist or that I'm not proud to be a part of it.

Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.

Nobody is going to pretend that I am younger than I am. Apart from anything else, it is in the papers all the damn time - every time I have a birthday.

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

It's sometimes comical to hear the younger generation ask their peers to repeat themselves.