It was my first big relationship and it was just very abusive. I wouldn't give him the credit of naming him if he ever reads this. But he was older in the music business - or so he said.

I was in relationship with a guy who was much older than me - either he was past his prime and I was coming into mine. There was nothing I could do to keep his attention.

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.

I'm torn about late parenting. I believe people should spend their twenties living and having fun and not having any regrets later. I also think people in their thirties generally make better parents but so many of my friends are having trouble - myself included - as fathers get older.

I really like all music but mostly Country older R&B and the good classic rock.

The bottom line is I tend to be going back to older and older music.

I would love to continue in music with writing... but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens I will bow down gracefully raise my kids and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don't need to be blonde when I'm 60!

I think older people can appreciate my music because I really show my heart when I sing and it's not corny. I think I can grow as an artist and my fans will grow with me.

What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed now I'm older. Thank God for growing up.

What bugs me is that movies don't reflect how interesting and vibrant women are. We don't treasure women as they get older.

It is odd there are many movies with many men. But generally movies have one woman or maybe the older woman and the younger girl.

When I started doing movies every crew member was older than me.

If I have to produce movies direct movies whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules I will. If I have to break them I will.

For horror movies color is reassuring because at least in older films it adds to the fakey-ness.

In terms of the romantic kind of lead I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they'll come to interest me more as I get older. I doubt it but maybe. Romantic comedies tend to be for me an oxymoron.