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It was so naive to think that there was nothing interesting that happened after 55. Come on, there's a whole second adulthood!

This year, when I turn 65, I thought, 'So weird;' when I was a kid, people who were 65 either retired or died. I'm so nowhere near that.

I guess I can be surprised I'm alive. I'm taking a little better care of myself than when I was a young person. My father died when he was 63. My mother made it to 74. My grandparents, God, they were dropping like flies.

I love creating opportunities for people. I think it's my orphan mentality.

I always had an easier time with adults. Somehow, I was always old! I still feel old.

Not everyone can be an orphan.

I'm not bothered by the idea of getting old, or I guess you could say by having arrived at old. I was 10 when my mom turned 55. For 1955, she was a very old mom.

I think because my parents died in their early 50s, mid 50s, I always thought I would die young. And that's been both a useful thing and I suspect something that's haunted me a little bit.

I'm not that old, and I haven't lived a life so far from the ordinary, really.