"Nearer 27 is still a decade younger than me; deal with it." The perception of usefulness, he means.

He's a fan of griping rather than hard questions - asking or answering. Definitely more than answering.

"I really like the phrasing there. Disappeared for a while is what I did." Which is short and tense and not really an answer. He wants to leave it alone. It sounds terrible and makes him sound terrible and he kind of likes that. It's just that... it's going to lead to more digging and he's going to have to answer more questions, and - "Got hijacked, and lost my memory for a while."