There is an idea, first of all, of vision fully formed with the eyes closed. Of course the vision we have in a lucid dream often has greater lucidity and clarity than vision with the eyes open.
'The Tube' was the first time the plebs had gone on the television. The lunatics taking over the asylum.
For me, whenever I choose a song to sing, it's about the lyric first.
I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it, on the page opposite.
When I first started, I thought I was wack. Lyrically, I thought I was wack. The thing I had over everybody was that I was the realest rapper.
My first part in a play was one of the witches in 'Macbeth.'
At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery.
Macbeth was the first play I ever read.
My first Macintosh was a 128k machine which I upgraded to 512k the minute it became possible.
Microsoft's Windows 3.1, released in 1992, was the first truly successful edition of Windows and juiced the Redmond juggernaut. Apple's Macintosh System 7.5, released in 1994, was another in a string of versions that lacked key architectural features that the Mac didn't have until Steve Jobs returned and brought with him the code that became OS X.
We gave the show away and in return, we received a certain number of minutes per hour for the three-hour show that we could sell to Madison Avenue. One of the first sponsors was MGM Records.
My very first magazine cover was the National Enquirer.
My very first NBA game was against the Los Angeles Lakers; it was a pre-season game against Magic Johnson.
The Magna Carta was the first class-based charter, enforced on the monarchy by the rising class.
I first heard Mahler's second symphony aged 11 in Liverpool, and it inspired me to become a conductor.
I have priorities. Maintaining my daughter is my first.
The Majestic Theater in 1990. That was one of my first real shows where I had 300 to 400 people there.
Success happened for me when I dropped my first major label album for Def Jam, 'Live From The Underground.'
There can be a wrong time - it's happened to countless bands where they release their first record on a major label and never learned what they maybe should have learned on an indie.
My first major role was in a play called 'Through the Leaves.'
