Growing up, my dad took me to the opera.

Female empowerment is very strong in my life and that's how I am.

Oh my gosh, I mean, I've had many experiences of men calling me psycho.

I think, personally for me I always work on the next goal and wanna figure out how to achieve it.

You don't want to be that parent - the one who dresses his kid in a cloth sack when all the other kids are in Armani cloth sacks - especially in a time like ours, when materialism is not only rampant and ascendant but is fast becoming the only game in town.

My family, ain't no more struggling to pay this bill, pay that bill.

I have a daughter from a relationship I had in my late teens or early 20s. Because I felt it wasn't the kind of pukka behaviour my family or relatives would admit to, I denied it for many years.

I was seen in earlier years by family members and people of authority as somebody wasting his time. I had trouble with the restrictions of conformity. It made me edgy.