Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago.

Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today.

A publisher many years ago asked if I'd like to write a novel for ?50. And I said, 'Absolutely.'

Scientists have found the gene for shyness. They would have found it years ago, but it was hiding behind a couple of other genes.

It really does not matter whether one believes a mystical entity created the universe 5,000 or 10,000 million years ago - both are equally irrational, unsubstantiated claims of no fundamental validity.

Years ago my fans consisted almost strictly of adults.

I did this movie about Salvador Dali a few years ago and had hair extensions and a little bob. That was incredibly bizarre.

I kinda don't do guilt. I gave it up for Lent years ago.

There were so many individual styles thirty or forty years ago.

I had directed some tele films years ago.

Forty years ago the chances of journalists reporting - or the authorities even prosecuting - a pro athlete were practically nil.

I'm confident that the terrorists are aware that from the curb to the cockpit we've got additional security measures that didn't exist a couple of years ago.

Gramercy Park is a four-acre square given in perpetuity to the residents surrounding it, 170 years ago, by Samuel Ruggles, a real estate developer of immoderate means.

I realised years ago that no one really knows what they're doing and you kind of just learn by observing.

I couldn't have recorded this record 15 years ago. My voice didn't have the depth to pull these songs off.

Most of the groups I worked with 30 years ago are either dead or dead broke. And it's a shame.

The machinery of the democratic process is really no different today from what it was 150 years ago.

I'm not a religious person, but I read the Bible many years ago.

I threw my TV out years ago.

As you get older what you think was 10 years ago was actually 15 years ago.