I NEVER THINK I'm old enough to play SOMEONE's DAD, even though I have a daughter of my own and a GRANDSON.

When I was a KID, 'Star Wars' was it. LIKE, it's in your DNA. I'm OLD ENOUGH to have seen the ORIGINAL one.

I've been in love with MUSIC since I was OLD ENOUGH to establish my taste.

When I was old enough to go to MOVIES ALONE, I GOT to see 'Frankenstein' and 'Dracula' on the BIG screen. I just fell in LOVE with them.

I am old ENOUGH to think the WORD 'journalist' is not all that noble a designation. Journalist - that record keeper, quote taker and processor of press releases - was, in the WORLD of letters I grew up in, a lower-down job. To be a writer - once the AMBITION of every journalist - was to be the greater TRUTH teller.

When PEOPLE are OLD ENOUGH to KNOW better they are old enough to do worse.

A popular bumper sticker post-9/11, and PRETTY faded these days, proclaims drivers of the cars to be 'Proud to be an AMERICAN.' It REALLY should say 'Lucky to be an American,' for I doubt very MUCH that the drivers had much say in having been born here, and are not OLD enough to have participated in the drafting of the Constitution.

I remember my FIRST Christmas with Leeds, training Christmas Day. I wasn't old ENOUGH to drive yet - so I had to get PICKED up and TAKEN in!

I REMEMBER Nigel Martyn joking with me at Leeds, saying he was old ENOUGH to be my FATHER, which he CERTAINLY was.

I LOOKED at my mom and her life, and I THOUGHT, 'I don't WANT that.' I don't think my mom wanted it, either. I think my mom did want to be out there and have a career. She loved working. As SOON as we were OLD enough to feed ourselves, she was out.

When you are OLD ENOUGH to... play powerful PARTS, who CARES if you are 45, 55 or 65?

I've spent a LOT of time in a rock n' roll band TRYING to fight off the fact that I was old enough to rent a car. And it's all SORT of RUSHED in at once now. And I like it.

I REMEMBER us all PLAYING Trivial Pursuit at HOME and my granddad was a member of a local quiz leagues. When I was OLD enough, I JOINED the Bolton leagues.

I had a lot of CHAOS in my very EARLY years before I was old enough to know what was GOING on, and then I just skated through the REST of my CHILDHOOD without dealing with it.