Life begins at 40. I could attempt writing. Life is taking me into different directions.
I will always look at my little Paris apartment with fond memories but I am too old to be sleeping on a futon bed!
Everybody's got plans... until they get hit.
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
The big new development in my life is, when I turned 80, I decided I no longer have to do four pages a day. For me, it's like retiring.
I had my crisis at 30. I was actually really comfortable with 40. Life was in a better place.
I'm getting older, and I'm smarter about how I eat.
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
Now I just feel like I'm more open to life. I have two children.
I'm not a career kind of person. When I saw new music, new trends coming in, I didn't see any place for me. And I didn't think about it as a career loss, because I was married - I have a great- grandchild now. The low points were when I lost people that I really cared about.
I do feel like the world is a better and happier place now that my son is here. That's so cliche, but it's true. I just have a new perspective; I'm more driven. Also, the thing that stands out to me is that I'm not as selfish. Before you have a child, you're doing everything for yourself. But now it's about what's best for him, and I'm enjoying that shift.
When people say you're going to be so different at 22 or 23, when you're 16, you're like, I'm so not! And then you change drastically.
I kind of feel like God took away Metro Station and the greatness there so I could settle down and have my love life.
I do still get shocked every once in a while when I catch my reflection when I'm walking past a glass building, but it's in my mind about getting older and finding out what I'm going to look like as it unfolds - or as it folds, depending on where the marks and scars land.
I'm not the Towie girl I once was, I'm not that girl anymore.
My music is about where I am at the time. In 'Raymond vs. Raymond,' I was going through a lot of things, and it came out in my music. My marriage fell apart, and I was suddenly a single father.
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.
I have been playing this game since I was 7 years old, and to all of a sudden recognize that you're not going to do it anymore is hard.
Time scoots along pretty fast when you grow up.
I moved to New York at 17 to go to school. At 24, I moved back to Ithaca, then moved back to New York at 28.
New York grabbed me too hard, as did adulthood.
As you get older, you have more responsibilities; you have more commitments, more events, kids, you're married now. You still have all the things that you've had, plus you just keep adding.
I won't play past 30. Why? I want to - I don't know - start a family, live life.
Honestly, 'Parenthood' was not what I planned. I didn't plan to do another drama. I didn't plan to play a single mom. I didn't plan, even, to do an ensemble show. But I hadn't found anything I liked as much. I just connected to the show.
I'm nearly 50. I'm past being photographed falling out of bars.
