To catch a wave, to stand up - it was just life-changing. There was nothing that even came close. I quit playing all other sports - by the time I was eleven, they were toast.
I don't feel under pressure to work because I love what I do and I wanted to do the projects that came my way.
I was always artistic - right from childhood - but my love of painting came a bit later. It followed my love of music.
Soul lyrics, soul music came at about the same time as the civil rights movement, and it's very possible that one influenced the other.
Starting out really punk came from not knowing any better and listening to music like that, not knowing how to play music - well, still not knowing how to play music.
I feel like I've become less of a music snob and less of a snob about a lot of things because I realize I came off as such a bad person because of that.
I came up during that time when music, to me, was really music. It wasn't about talking about a woman and calling them a derogatory name or something like that. It was real music.
I came into music just because I wanted the bread. It's true. I looked around and this seemed like the only way I was going to get the kind of bread I wanted.
My arm came back just as quickly as it went sore on me in 1915. I awoke one morning and learned I could throw without pain again.
When you were a volunteer for the Bush-Cheney campaign, you came in the morning; you had a supervisor who gave you a list of calls to make and a time to do it in.
It only worked for a little while; the morning after I agreed to go with Universal, an article came out in the Hollywood trade papers, and the secret was out.
I had a marriage that I came to in the same way everybody else comes to a marriage. We all take chances when we get married.
For years everyone looked toward the demise of radio when television came along. Before that, they thought talking movies might eliminate radio as well. But radio just keeps getting stronger.
I've been very successful doing voices in movies. I did Olive, the Other Reindeer, with Drew Barrymore, and I did Cats and Dogs. My children came to some of the sessions.
Guido: You came just in time. Why are you smiling? Suppose I told you... Claudia.
My father was a no-nonsense, dedicated, and focused minister, and there was usually a sermon he needed to prepare for or a Scripture he needed to study, and that always came first.
My ex would know not to talk to me until I came back from running. I'd always be in a better place.
The general population still thinks HIV is something that came in the 80s and went away, or that it only affects the gay population or intravenous drug users.
And the time came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
I have friends who are black whose families opened their arms to them when they came out; I have friends who were white where they were rejected.
As a result of the awareness and consciousness of decline, an awareness and consciousness of a national ethnicity or an Islamic identity also came into being.
