I've always been doing some sort of art. I started off, when I was very young, painting.
There's no background of creativity in my family; there are no actors or musicians.
Having been raised by actors who love moral ambiguity and flawed protagonists, I feel like it's sort of in the blood to want to take it on.
Art was a way of life in my family. My grandfather, N.C. Wyeth, who died a year before I was born, had been a prominent painter. So was my father, Andrew. My two aunts and two of my uncles also earned a living as painters.
I grew up in a Southside suburb of Chicago. It was idyllic. But I was plunked into a family that was not artistic and didn't know how to deal with my emotions.
I don't feel comfortable doing movies. It's not what I trained to do. I trained to be a theater actress. You put me on a stage in front of 2,000 people, I know what to do.
My parents never mentioned anything about fashion in our household, instead we used to talk about literature, theatre, and arts...this is why I have kept a real relation with the Art world, by putting books from the beginning in my shops' windows.
I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age.
I never had vocal lessons, dance classes, or any of the things my peers had.
I'm a better economist than I was a sax player.
I'd come into filmmaking as a painter so, for me, making 'Good Will Hunting' was experimental because I didn't know how to do it.
I have been drawing and creating visual works my entire life, as long as I can remember.
I've been doing visual stuff for as long as I've been making records; in fact, for longer.
I was born in a world of opera, theatre, films, poetry, art, and therefore, out of the wire, I made a stage. That's why they call me a high wire artist.
For one year I did go to Performing Arts School, and I had very weird friends.
Well, I was a drama kid.
My whole background, my whole life was just lots and lots of theater, a lot of that being musical theater.
I went to the Academy and studied with Stuck who was then a big man. But didn't interest me. I didn't know that before me there was Kandinsky and Klee who had also studied with Stuck. He had a good name at that time.
I come from an art history background. I studied at a master's degree level; I chose to dork out on art for much of my adult life. A lot of my heroes are artists and a lot of my musical heroes have an artistic side.
For me, I was a musician long before I was an actor.
Both my parents have done considerable work in theatre and I have grown up with that culture, but I still felt that I needed formal training.
I grew up in New York, and I grew up with a mother who was an arts lover herself, and I went to these New York City public schools with these great arts education programs, so it was something that I was lucky enough to be able to be exposed to very early.
I've always been interested in visual art and used to be much more into theater when I was younger, or more knowledgeable about what's going on. And literature has played a big part in my life.
You can't deny RCA's past and its history. I was also on Capitol Records, so I have that past history.
I am not from a musical family.
