Many companies that become verbs actually end up modifying our behaviors, and companies that modify behaviors end up becoming behemoths.
English has always been a mongrel tongue, snapping up words from every continent its speakers encountered.
I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is a day well-spent.
My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language.
I grew up on a plantation in Alabama in a small town outside of Montgomery.
I didn't record 'Pumped Up Kicks' out of a sense of moral obligation.
I'm a really heavy sleeper. When I wake up I'm a terrible morning person.
If there is one way that I would sum up what the 2016 election was on cable news, it was world-class journalists interviewing morons.
I'm a huge fan of Morris Chestnut. I grew up with Morris, and I know him personally.
I met Mos Def around that time but I didn't hook up with him until I was about 17 or 18.
Canada is a really big melting pot of cultures, so we ended up with a giant mosaic of different music.
I grew up in a house that was in a constant state of mourning.
I had brothers and sisters and did chores and had to pick up the dog crap in the yard and mow the lawn and do all the normal things that kids have to do.
I grew up listening to Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf and lots of blues, R&B and Motown.
I usually mug up my Telugu dialogues much before going to the sets every day.
When I turned pro, Muhammad Ali was laying back, and I was able to fill up an area that was empty.
The first time I performed musically, I threw up.
I suppose, unconsciously, I used all my wives to further my journey up the ladder.
I love reading all the mythological stories. I was brought up on them.
With a book, there's no volume to turn up. You're very naked with a book.
