If it weren't for painting, I wouldn't live; I couldn't bear the extra strain of things.
My parents were Belfast Catholics.
The beehives from the '60s were gorgeous. The big hair from the '80s wasn't.
Tupac, Biggie, Jay. Your usual suspects. These were the people that was played in my household.
When my friends were listening to hip-hop or R&B, I was in the crib listening to Billy Joel and Michael Bolton, Luther Vandross, and Oscar Peterson.
Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.
It's nice to say let's be bipartisan. But we're a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.
We were like bishops of opposite color.
School shootings were invented by blacks... and stolen by the white man.
My 20s were a blizzard of rejection slips.
We were watching bands like the Ramones and Blondie and other bands beginning to ignite.
Both of our wars in Iraq were, on American television, largely bloodless.
As a bookish adolescent, I sopped up texts as if I were blotting paper and they were fluid.
If I were the blushing kind, I would blush to be called a hero.
My top three were Jim Brown, Wilt Chamberlain and Bo Jackson.
He and I were about as compatible as a rat and a boa constrictor.
Theatres are built because they were the boards for entertainment.
My favorite actors when I was a kid were in their '60s. Spencer Tracy, Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne.
I was somewhat out of place among my classmates; I could not be as bohemian as they were.
My parents were artists, bohemian, hanging out a lot.