It's sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity. It's about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way.
People's attitude seems to be that if you don't have a television, you're not connected to reality - somehow you're not in reality. It's quite interesting, because I suspect that possibly it's the reverse.
Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise.
I think it's my adventure, my trip, my journey, and I guess my attitude is, let the chips fall where they may.
I always said punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that.
I grew up in a rough environment. You want to be strong and have your presence felt out there. That attitude reflects how people see you.
You have to have an attitude that nothing's gonna stop me. I think that's just my New York kind of attitude - survival of the fittest.
In the late '70s, maybe just before I started, there was still an attitude that if you did film you didn't do TV and vice versa, but that's gone now.
I've never been out with any of the cast of Coronation Street. We're all very close friends so it's very much a professional attitude.
But I think bands that rolled in with a big attitude, like they were some big deal, I just found that very strange.
My dad instilled in me a great sense of humor. I wasn't bullied at school because my outward attitude was confident, and that helps.
Most women would not be happy being me. People say, 'But you're alone.' But I don't feel alone. I feel very un-alone.
The biggest ingredient in a best friend is someone whose actions you respect and who you can truly be yourself around.
I've never done a solo tour. I feel like getting out there and doing that.
I actually started singing those songs six or seven years ago, when I was an opening act for Frank Sinatra.
'Friday' is about hanging out with friends, having fun. I felt like it was my personality in that song.
To be honest, I didn't even know what the Drama Desk Awards were until I was nominated.
My Mt. Rushmore of hero worship would include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Marcus Aurelius, Frank Sinatra and Barry White.
My audience is made up of such bizarre, rare people. They're very sparse and scattered; it's not like a huge body of people.
My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.
Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.
