I want to get old gracefully. ...

I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.

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One of the rewards of success is freedom. the ability to do whatever you like.
That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.
I learned to change my accent; in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be held back.
I don't drink coffee I take tea my dear, I like my toast done on one side. And you can hear it in my accent when I talk, I'm an Englishman in New York. See me walking down Fifth Avenue, a walking cane here at my side. I take it everywhere I walk, I'm an Englishman in New York. I'm an alien I'm a legal alien, I'm an Englishman in New York.
The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.