I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well.
I was trained as an actress. But I wasn't a very convincing actress, so I started doing punk poetry and then fell into doing stand-up.
And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.
My greatest environments in which I can grow, or grow up, is in personal romantic relationships with a man.
Growing up, a film was an action film or it was a comedy or it was romantic, but you don't really see such stark lines between genres nowadays.
I was a bit of an introvert growing up, and I tended to do better in math and science at school, so I went with it.
This is going to sound really sad, but I didn't really have any heartthrobs when I was growing up. I was a bit of a geek.
I was on the snowboard team at my school, but that was the only sports team I was on. I played soccer growing up in elementary school.
I'm an English boy. I played a lot of sports growing up, but I never had any kind of workout regimen.
I had no doubts I could go to the pole. I may not be as strong, but I make up for physical strength in other areas, like steadiness and not panicking under stress.
The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.
The secret of our success is that we never, never give up.
I love dressing up in superhero outfits and in fact, when I dress up as Wonder Woman, I actually think that I'm more powerful.
I love the idea of waking up to a song. It could be any song.
In the early Seventies, I had shoulder-length hair, bell-bottom pants, love beads and shirts that laced up at the front. But then I smartened up.
As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing - hopefully.
I never gave up on music, and I feel like music never gave up on me.
I spent a lot of time in Tower Records. I'm a huge music nerd, and Tower was instrumental to me when I was growing up.
Ninety-nine percent of the music that was of any interest to me when I was growing up came out of the black community.
We weren't allowed to have secular music in the house growing up. I was home-schooled, and gospel was the only choice we had.
It wasn't like I picked a camera up in 1989 and stopped making music. I picked a camera up and found another form of expression.
