I don't have a house, and I don't have a lot of time for socializing, so every year I have a party for all of my friends.
I'm taking one thing at a time. With the children and launching my solo career it would drive me to a nervous breakdown if I tried to organise a wedding on top of that.
It is a burden because I get asked about my father all the time. I just need to accept that he was a champion before me.
My parents were intelligent and encouraging, but at the same time, they were displeased at me becoming a wandering troubadour and wire walker.
I don't like to sound egotistical, but every time I stepped up to the plate with a bat in my hands, I couldn't help but feel sorry for the pitcher.
I can't summarize my favorite movie, Jacques Tati's 'Play Time.' You just have to see it.
My father was a graduate student at Oxford in the early 1960s, where the conventions and etiquette of clothing were crucial to the pervasive class consciousness of the place and time.
It is time my colleagues got real. All British universities doing worthwhile research use animals, and, instead of hiding, they should be boasting of their achievements.
My first job was working at Benihana as kitchen help. In college, I was a telemarketer for a company at the same time I was a bike messenger for this greasy fast-food place.
As I get older, I become more imaginative and feel like I have maybe a shorter time to get a lot of things going on in my mind done.
It might have been easier to retire, to say my knee couldn't handle it and let that be that. At the same time, the prospect of not being able to compete in gymnastics anymore was heartbreaking.
I don't think I had a Catherine Bach poster, but I know a lot of my friends desecrated those, big time.
By the second time I sang by myself in school, I just realized that I was more in control of my environment than I had ever been before.
With the general availability of Windows 8/RT and Surface, I have decided it is time for me to take a step back from my responsibilities at Microsoft.
My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time.
I grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania, where my parents raised German shepherds - we had about 30 dogs at any given time.
I have said a lot that it's very important to me to make time for my child and make her the priority. I made sacrifices so that I'm around and not traveling for that.
In my opinion, the only way to conquer stage fright is to get up on stage and play. Every time you play another show, it gets better and better.
I like the app where you can make your own memes. I make memes all the time and send them to my friends.
During my first pregnancy, I spent a lot of time worrying about how big I was getting and how I would lose it afterwards.
As a writer, I have learned that each time I pick up my pencil I betray someone.
