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I wasn't planning on being a comedian; I just liked to laugh. Somebody said I should do it and that's how I started.

Of course, when I started my career, like anyone else who was 16 at the time, we were besotted by the rock-n-roll scene from America, and all I was interested in was having a career of my own.

When I first started in rock, I had a big guy's audience for my early records. I had a very straight image, particularly through the mid '80s.

I gotta tell you, right at the top of my list would be taking vitamins. I know that over the years doctors have said they're ridiculous and all that. But I started taking my vitamins at an early age. And I take them every day. Every bloody day! So I think that's number one. For whatever reason, I feel active and pretty good at my age.

I was probably 7 years old when I started playing the guitar and writing some serious songs.

I had always written. I had written stories and poems. Then I started writing plays.

In most recent times, as the West started being hostile to us, we deliberately declared a Look East policy.

Probably a few weeks after I was born I started having casts put on my legs to straighten them out. After that corrective shoes and with a brace in between.

I was maybe only 13 or 14 when I started to play junior tournaments.

They started to try and keep us off the air in the beginning.

As a kid it's adorable to have a gap in your teeth. But then, because of the shifting in my mouth, I started whistling through it, and as a 32-year-old woman, whistling while you speak in sort of annoying.

I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!

If a war started, the oil price probably would go up, as you said, maybe $5, $6 a barrel until you saw other oil from the extra supplies that are available elsewhere coming into the world, into the market.

I didn't understand that I could sing until I was like 11 or 12. My mom heard me singing around the house and she said, What are you doing? You really can sing! So then I started going to school and singing to the girls.

I started taking singing classes just two years ago. It was great. I never knew I could sing but I kind of found my voice.

So if I want to buy a light in a shop and I don't find a light that I like, I think to myself what would I like? What would I like to buy? Then I started to imagine and design it for myself a lot of the time.

I was a Marvel guy. I started reading comics when I was a kid.

I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.

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.