When I was at school, I was in choirs more than anything else, from a very young age, about 9 years old. And then I started taking drum lessons.
For me, having a child is a really great responsibility because you've got something there that is depending on you for information and love until a certain age when it goes to school.
I was always involved in the arts from a young age. I started studying classical piano at age four as a student of the Associated Board of the Royal School of Music.
I was always in trouble from an early age. I had a fraught relationship with my parents, who were very traditional. Doing plays at school was a joyous release.
I went to private school in Manhattan, and at a young age, they made us do public speaking. For some reason, I was good at standing in front of the class and speaking.
I walked to Seward School first through fourth grade. It's just amazing to me now that we'd walk down 10th Avenue on Capitol Hill.
I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new songs. I can't remember us working it out.
Underwater, I experience space with my body. I'll see a school of fish gathering and moving together and I'll exclaim, 'This is architecture.'
Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect, I just started my own little design studio.
I wanted to be an animator originally. I went to art school; I went to art college and everything. But that screen was just calling me.
At culinary school, none of the things we use to define ourselves outside that world - actor, producer, student - none of that matters. It's a magical art form.
I am not a food critic. Or a chef. Or even a professional writer. What I am schooled in the art of, however, is enjoying myself.
I found that I was just hopeless at school. It was just a total bore. First, I passed in art and English, and then just art. Then I passed out.
I never went to school for art or was told what to like or when. So every day is a learning process, like most of life.
I grew up wanting only to be an illustrator. I studied art at Laurel School in Cleveland and at Smith College.
Dad never understood why Ridley wanted to go to art school, and then I came along six years later and wanted to do the same thing.
I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know.
French name, English accent, American school. Anna confused.
Enjoy every ounce of your life, get high and be sincere to anybody that comes around you.
Are you keeping up your good studies at school and working as hard as you always did?
I wasn't aiming at the school bus, but of course I got expelled anyway.
