What impressed me most about New York were its huge apartment houses.
I had a great mother, and I'm very comfortable with that maternal element.
I grew up with a very quick temper, and the language of violence is a language that I'm very familiar and comfortable with.
You look at your past and things that are unresolved and figure out what you need to do to move forward and fill a role with your family and in your community.
The world is a dangerous, unstable place and sometimes there are casualties and struggles for power.
How do you fight the stagnation of monogamy and the monotony of time together?
Within the stability of a family struggle, when there's less chaos, you can have the most soul-searching and the most digging to find out what and who you really are.
Three or four stones in one firing will all react differently. I try to achieve a balance between those that haven't progressed enough and those about to go too far.
They're already taking my future! They can't have the things that mattered to me in the past!
Don't listen to me. Listen to yourself. . . People often ask me at this age, 'Who am I passing the torch to?' First of all, I'm not giving up my torch, thank you! I'm using my torch to light other people's torches. . . . If we each have a torch, there's a lot more light.
The people around whom I've lived most of my life, they're similar. They have same expectations of life that aren't exaggerated, they could be accomplished, they could get what they want. But they could not, too. It's not to be taken for granted. Even getting by, and being satisfied, barely, is hard.