I saw Damien Rice in Dublin when I was 13, and that inspired me to want to pursue being a songwriter... I practised relentlessly and started recording my own EPs. At 16, I moved to London and played any gigs I could, selling CDs from my rucksack to fund recording the next, and it snowballed from there.
I started playing video games, and in 1978 I discovered Dungeons & Dragons and started game-mastering and writing my own adventures and creating my own worlds.
I've made no secret of the fact that I often wear wigs and have in fact launched my own 'Dynasty' range, named after various characters. I find this saves a ton of time - as well as my own hair.
I just remember I wanted to make my own dynasty and not keep following trends. I wanted to make my own.
I just wanted to have my own dynasty. I wanted my own Cash Money or Roc-A-Fella. Outside of that, I also wanted my own media company.
I'm surprised that I've survived my own dysfunction, really.
I only listen to my own music when I'm playing an hour-and-half set each night. I don't put it on recreationally.
What is it that the scientist finds useful in being able to relate a positive description of behavior to the solution of a maximizing problem? That is what a good deal of my own early work was about.
I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
Pretty much my whole life, I've been a performer and have loved singing and writing songs in my room for my own ears.
I only believe in what I see and hear with my own eyes and ears.
In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress.
Ed Sheeran wrote his songs, so I wanted to write my own songs.
My own son called me Eddie Murphy's brother once. Once.
The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of 'Tales from Livy' that I'd found in my grandfather's library.
When I make my own videos, I am the writer, the editor, the lighting person, everything - that's why my videos are blurry.
I am often asked which of my films has come closest to my own ideal of performance, and I always answer, 'Educating Rita.'
Maybe it's egocentric or whatever, but when I'm playing Beethoven, Bach, Hendrix, or whoever it is, in the end, it just feels like my own music and I'm making it up as I'm going along.
I'm constantly working, and I've earned everything that I've been able to achieve on my own, and that's what being the eldest of 14 taught me.
Within my own life, I read all the beloved novels by lamps of vegetable oil; I saw the Standard Oil invading my own village, I saw gas lamps in the Chinese shops in Shanghai; and I saw their elimination by electric lights.
