You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.

If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly our whole life would change.

Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.

It can never be again! Everyone always talks about a good thing coming to an end, as if life was over. But I'll be 40 when this interview comes out. Paul is 38. Elton John, Bob Dylan - we're all relatively young people. The game isn't over yet. Everyone talks in terms of the last record or the last Beatle concert - but, God willing, there are another 40 years of productivity to go.

I've wanted one thing in my life. I don't want to be that girl that gets that one thing then complains.