My mother is Ukrainian. She immigrated to the U. S. from Canada as a child.
But when I do get recognized, I get recognized usually for 'Firefly.
So when people ask me if there's another one, I say, "You know, I don't think so, but I don't know, and I kind of don't understand why. "
I didnt know of any homophile movements pre-Stonewall.
I was told that if I wanted to be a leading man in Hollywood, I couldnt possibly be thought of as gay.
I've just never talked about it. But it's so liberating. It was interesting to be coming to have a conversation that I was always afraid to have. This is my coming out ball. I've been dying to do this.
Starting a new job is always scary, or at least for me it's always scary. It's like the first day of school.
The other thing I said is the great irony is you will be back fighting against your own weapons. Had [Bashar] Assad been bombed when he used chemical weapons two years ago, ISIS would be in charge of all of Syria now.
Time pressure gradually corrupts an engineer's standard of quality and perfection. It has a detrimental effect on people as well as products
You need to get outside of your comfort zone to write songs that are interesting, songs that are compelling, songs that are different from what other people are writing.
The man who eats to live, who is friends with the five powers - earth, water, ether, sun and air - who is a servant of God, the Creator of all these, ought not to fall ill.