I think, as you're growing up, your emotions are just as deep as they are when you're an adult. You're ability to feel lonely, longing, confused or angry are just as deep. We don't feel things more as we get older.
I always had really long swimmer's arms. The last to totally go is always my thighs and butt, but my old body is there somewhere.
Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus.