My dad's French, and I spent my summers in France growing up. So I speak French fluently, and obviously, I speak English because I was raised in New York, and I grew up here.
Growing up in college, in high school, I was the focal point.
All of my youth growing up in my Italian family was focused around the table. That's where I learned about love.
My musical influences growing up were limited to Korean folk songs and hymns as I went to a Christian boarding school where I was not allowed to listen to secular music.
I grew up in Vermont, so we didn't really have a TV, growing up, or a football team.
You try various things when you're growing up. I was an attache in the Foreign Service for a while and then I drove a bulldozer, but neither of those panned out for me so it had to be stand-up.
When I was growing up, my parents took in foster children. From a young age, I learned that there are a lot of children in need.
Freddie Mercury, to me, was probably the most important frontman to me growing up.
When I was growing up, there wasn't too much technology. There weren't so many channels that we were glued to on TV. We had to go outside and create our games. Kids had the habit of being active and exercising, just enjoying the fresh air.
I've often wondered if the trade-off for growing up in the relative newness and freshness of the West Coast was befuddlement when it comes to historical preservation. We don't have many old things, and we don't really know what to do with the few that are around when our default response is to compost or field burn.
As a lad growing up in the Fifties and Sixties, I played both Gaelic football and soccer and loved them both.
We want to create a kind of cycle where casual gamers are gradually growing up to become passionate players.
When I was growing up, kids used to talk about snitching... It never extended as a cultural norm outside of the gangsters.
I was used to Essex boys growing up. Russian boys are a lot more gentlemanly and thoughtful. They will express their emotions a bit more.
When I was growing up, I had more comedy albums than musical ones. George Carlin, Cheech and Chong, Steve Martin, Richard Pryor - those were my main men.
There is no doubt that the way journalism worked when I was growing up and getting started has changed forever.
In terms of comedians, I loved, growing up, Jonathan Winters, Sid Caesar, Jackie Gleason, Phil Silvers, Carol Burnett, all those people.
When I was growing up, we had cats, dogs, guinea pigs, rabbits, goats, chickens - a whole menagerie.
Mariah and Whitney Houston were my goddesses growing up.
I started golfing at a young age, and growing up with two older brothers, it made me mature a lot younger.
