I think the 20-year-old just thinks everything goes well and the child will always be perfect and they usually are. But 40-year-olds are more appreciative of the fact it works out so well.

I've seen my practice mature and probably 50 percent to 60 percent of the pregnancies are over the age of 35, especially over 40.

I can tell you for sure: people who are at their peak right now will not sustain that. You can't. It's against the law of nature.

Luck is a component that a lot of people in the arts sometimes fail to recognise: that you can have talent, perseverance, patience, but without luck you will not have a successful career.

There will always be nations. The United States will last a long, long time, I believe. France and Germany and Japan, China, other nations, they're going to exist. But they're losing their significance and ability to deal with certain matters.

If you're a person who complains about everything all the time, then you're just the boy who cried 'wolf.' But if you do it on occasion and about the right reasons, then people listen.