I didn't have a boyfriend until I was 16 and he was eight years older. My father was furious about this 24-year-old and I had to hide the relationship.

As you get older you have more respect and empathy for your parents. Now I have a great relationship with both of them.

The older I get the greater power I seem to have to help the world I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.

I think it's almost an indulgence to focus on the dark side of things. And as you get older you want to focus on the positive.

Something I've noticed as I get older is that I do think about the future more. It's all positive thinking.

I spent two years in the Army. And my older brother who was also a great positive influence on me encouraged me to think about law school and I said - well I didn't have any money.

As I've gotten older I've gotten more liberal and my father is increasingly conservative. It's so shocking to me because I always thought we had the same politics. The day I realized we voted for different presidents I practically fell out of my chair.

No one wants to hear my perspective on politics but I think honestly as you get older you get more interested in it.

The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.

I've written poetry since I was in the first grade and it wasn't until I was a little bit older that I realized poetry could be put to music and become a song.