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I suppose, at 50, you value things in a different way. So you value connections, you value your friendships, you value your health, and you are much more aware of time passing.

In my 20s, I used to have a lot more energy! I was this skydiving, bungee-jumping adrenaline junkie. I don't know what happened to me! Now that I'm in my early 30s, I've put all that energy into my work, although I'm still a little ridiculous. In your 30s, you're sensible enough to know better, but still stupid enough to do stupid things.

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.

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

What happens at 50, more or less, you lose what you need to create another person, to sustain another person; you keep what you need to sustain yourself. And there's something wonderful about that.

Don't you think it astonishing that, at 58, I am still working at improving my career?

My mom is in her mid-60s and has more energy and is more youthful than any human being I know. It's pretty incredible.

I'm someone who's done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is, to keep your career going into your 50s.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.