I'm too young for a man, but I'm too old for a boy. So, can't we just pretend, that I'm older than I really am, but then, only little girls pretend.
Everyone takes pause at 40. It's the age you have to assess everything in your life. It's the fictitious marker that's always coming up when you're young. The world really does look at you to kind of have it together by 40, and be successful by 40. Whatever success means.
I'm intrigued by traditional Indian designs. They are so beautifully handcrafted, and the designs are so intricate and beautiful. I really prefer the Indian designs.
I wouldn't be young again even if it were possible, but I am not going to pretend that growing old is all sweetness and light.
I have had built, from my designs, over 40,000 living units, and that's more than any other architect that I know of.
If our designs are failing due to the constant rain of changing requirements, it is our designs that are at fault. We must somehow find a way to make our designs resilient to such changes and protect them from rotting.
It's possible to pretend I'm someone other than who I am, and if I pretend long enough, I can believe it.
When I look at character artistes, they begin after 40. For instance, Boman Irani took up his first film after he was 40. Since I too, am in my 40s, I think I am finally getting to be in my zone.
I'm not dyeing my hair and trying to pretend I'm 40. That's not going to work for me.
To pretend you don't feel a certain strangeness after living in England for 40 years is a fallacy.
I'm a staunch believer in the effect of pop culture - including advertising and the internet - on the young. Pop culture in its narrowest sense - mass-produced film, TV, and music - either truly reflects what's up in youth culture, or it reflects what youth-filled focus groups have told marketing companies that they want to consume.
God's designs regarding you, and His methods of bringing about these designs, are infinitely wise.
In a couple of days, it will be 40 days, 40 hours, 40 years in the desert - 40 is fraught with meaning and symbolism.
My personality resembles my designs to a large extent. I'm in sync with myself and I'm transparent, just like my designs.
About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.
For a composer of concert music, 40 is actually very young. But for a rock musician, 40 is almost past due, where you think of rock music as really part of more youth-oriented culture.