As a kid, I would listen to anything that had a live orchestra or ensemble playing, so that covered everything from show tunes to eclectic jazz things to film soundtracks to classical music. They're all inspiring to me.
I think that what we were doing with the live musical version of 'Shrek' was taking the ideas and the structure of the movie and not necessarily reinventing it but reimagining it. It is a very different medium to perform.
It's marvelous when you visit Tokyo: they have these clubs, and they'll have 'Motown Night' or 'The Beatles - Totally Authentic and Live!' You know it's shrunk, but at least there's some sort of youthful figure to it. Whereas, the blues scene in Europe is more like, 'Here we go again.'
Many trans women of color come from poverty and are forced to live on the streets. Their families have shunned them, and their remaining family are the friends they've come to rely on.
I like snow, but I don't want to live in Siberia.
I worked in Trenton, and then I got sidetracked into comedy and then onto 'SNL.' And then into being a live performer - what I do now; virtually that's what I am: I'm a live entertainer.
We can raise our sights high when we're willing to break free from being conformists who live a conventional life simply because we are too afraid to express our uniqueness.
I live a pretty simple life.
I live a very simple life. I live away from all the Hollywood hype, and I try to keep it that way.
For me it's a simple sport and a simple way to live these seven or eight years of maximum sport.
Myth-making is absolutely necessary to create the simplified images that people live off.
I have never witnessed, nor will I live long enough to witness, a more simplistic crime than me stealing your identity.
I've made three studio albums and one live one with my brother. It's melodic singer-songwriter acoustic-rock music.
Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.
When the audience resonates with my music and sings every single word from the song, the high of performing live is unmatched.
Now that I live in Los Angeles, if I meet somebody from Detroit, it's like there's this brother- or sisterhood, where we're real folks.
I had always been kind of obsessed with making a home of my own and was always drawing rooms that I wanted to live in, down to pictures on the wall and the faces that would be in the photographs, and how the couches would be situated.
I make skeletons that are able to walk on the wind, so they don't have to eat... eventually I want to put these animals out in herds on the beaches, so they will live their own lives.
Well, I loved variety in television, I loved sketch comedy. At 'Saturday Night Live,' I stayed almost seven years.
Now, we connect via Skype or Google+ Hangout and see our friends' and loved ones' faces live.
