I don't want to be perfect, I just want to be real.
"We are all our own graveyards I believe; we squat amongst the tombs of the people we were."
One of the advantages of being old is that you can speak your mind without worrying about the consequences.
The longer life goes on, the fewer those around you to challenge your account of things, to remind you that life is not as you tell it, but as you remember it.
To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep.