I contend that not only can you laugh at adversity, but it is essential to do so if you are to deal with setbacks without defeat.

With age, you get to a place where you don't want to knock people out. You just want to give people a hug.

Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.

You have to be desirable. And that's why so many woman of my age or even younger are pushed to Botox and plastic surgery, all the things that people say, 'Why do women do this?' Where do you go in your 50s in your career?

There's also some element of coming of age during the Reagan administration, which everybody has painted as some glorious time in America, but I remember as being a very, very dark time. There was apocalypse in the air the punk rock movement made sense.

I want to be part of the resurgence of things that are tangible, beautiful and soulful, rather than just give in to the digital age. But when I talk to people about this they just say, 'Yeah, I know what you mean,' and stare at their mobiles.