The weird thing about grief, for me at least, was when each of my parents died, for a year or two afterwards I was pretty wildly brave - just willing to take life on.
I don't want to pack everything into one year and then do nothing the rest of my life. I think it's important to do things bit by bit.
The war years were the most difficult time of my life. There was real famine in Moscow. The water froze inside the houses. There was no heat.
In the years just after 9/11, even being breathed on by a suspected terrorist could land you in extralegal detention for the rest of your life.
My parents were married my whole life until my father passed away a few years ago.
If you're going to get engaged make sure you've talked to your partner about life together in the years to come.
I was born in Liverpool in England, and I lived there for the first nine years of my life.
We spent most of our life almost like street rats just running around the street until we were ten years old.
I don't want to have that thing where I make an album and then I'm super-constantly present in everyone's life for three years, and then gone for the next three.
Music is my life, professionally, for nearly 60 years. To be recognized by the academy is still the highest honor.
As a footballer I can't imagine life without the use of one of my legs... Sadly this is exactly what happens to thousands of children every year when they accidentally step on a landmine.
For years, whenever I'd been travelling and came back to Copenhagen, I'd think: 'People are so stylish.' And it's not any one class. It's everyday life.
In the movies, I kill guys with an axe. In real life, I can't control a nine-year-old girl.
I feel like I've lost 10 years of my life to cancer.
My reward in life for growing up a little bit was that Mary Steenburgen came into my life, and we have been together for 19 years.
The hardest part of directing is the choosing. Unlike an actor who can do a variety of work, it is a year of your life, you can't afford to get it wrong.
My input for the first 16, 17 years of my life was AM radio, FM radio - pretty mainstream stuff. Rolling Stone was probably as edgy as it got.
For the past eight years, the right has been better at working the refs. Now the left is learning how to play the game.
I've been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.
Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
Sometimes I'll come up with a lick that I really love, and I'll try to put the right words to it for years. Suddenly something comes to me that works just right.
