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I actually started singing those songs six or seven years ago, when I was an opening act for Frank Sinatra.

When I started to watch some of the films I'd done, I realized I was doing movies that I might not actually want to see.

I'm certainly not very book smart, but I started traveling at 16, and it has enriched me in ways I could never begin to explain.

We started the company out of frustration with the employer that we had because we were building great stuff and there was no way that this stuff was ever going to get into the hands of the people who could use it.

We started getting the script to different people and we were in the business of trying to fund it so we could get it off and running, and all the characters and sets designed and everything.

I started out to be a painter and was born into the theater.

I have been an actor for most of my life. When I started out, I didn't think about anything except what was good for me. Like many movie stars, I became all wrapped up in myself.

Blues was my first love. It was the first thing where I said, 'Oh man, this is the stuff.' It just sounded so raw and honest, gut-bucket honest. From then I started rebelling.

The big gay clubs like Heaven started having mixed nights in the late '80s.

I signal with an independent label, Continuum. After that I put out a totally independent record, sold fourteen thousand of them from my basement, bought a house, started raising my kid, made a decent living.

One fan sent me one tooth, so I made a necklace out of it. But then I found a bunch of my baby teeth, and started realizing I would love to wear a piece of my fans' bodies on me.

Allow me a bit of philosophy here... We started tele skiing as a rebellion against rules.

I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.

I started skating because I loved it. I started when I was three and I didn't know all the sacrifices and all the hardships and how difficult day-in and day-out it would be.

I started when I was in college because I was shy and thought it would be a good way to break out of that.

I was seen dancing at school by a director, who asked me to be in a TV play. And it had a huge impact. So I think that's what really started me off.

I started writing songs at 17.

I started acting when I was in high school, started writing when I got to New York in 1975.

Honest to God, all my life I have had such a fear of spiders. In fact, I use to have a reoccurring dream about one. Very clearly, it was black with a red head. It would sit up in the corner of the bedroom and when it started getting closer, I would wake up in a panic.

I think then, when we started receiving the first of the user feedback, feedback from people that I had not specifically told about it, but had spread from friend to friend and then they were giving us feedback.

And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing.

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

When newspapers started to publish the box office scores of movies, I was horrified. Those results are totally fake because they never include the promotion budget.

I thought if anyone need a leg up, it was our foster children. So, I started getting involved in education reform, and that was back in 1998. And as a result of all the reform work that I had done, people urged me to run for the Minnesota state Senate. I did, I was there for six years.

When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.

When I started working with mirrors, it seemed to be the perfect material to stand in for that waiting.

When I was in school, I was very involved with a lot of things. I was very very active. I couldn't say that I wasn't popular. I was a cheerleader when I was in junior high. I didn't make it in high school so I started a dance line.

I started my cooking 'career' aged 15, almost 20 years ago. At the time it was quite a shock suddenly working 75 to 80 hours a week, without time to play football or other sports.

That got us started on revenue sharing, and we couldn't have done it without all the teams.

But we got up there and decided to stick to this mix of power chords and funk and that's where it really started for us. In having the courage to take that decision. To take a gamble not just with our music but our lives.