The foundation of my beliefs is the same as it was when I was 10. Non-violence.
I am a village boy, and Amsterdam for me was always the big town.
I'm a Catholic, raised a Catholic. I was an altar boy. Religion has been a huge part of my life. It helped lead me through a war, leads me today.
Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.
I always wanted to do something I knew I could love to wake up and do every day, and rap was just second nature to me, growing up in Harlem. I never really had to try.
I was, by the way - I'm an Essex lad, born and raised in Essex in the U.K.
I think Night Court was the first thing I did when I came out to Hollywood. It was just one of those things that... I'm from Texas, and it was a character I'd been doing when I was a kid, just for fun.
I started filmmaking when I started surfing, so the two things have been with me since I was 12 years old, so it's sort of been in my bones to make surf movies. I guess every now and then I just crave to do it again.
I'm not going to try to deny that I'm a Red Sox fan. I grew up a Red Sox fan, had a great decade here that I really enjoyed, and that will always be a part of me.
Since beginning my work in areas like addiction, for example, I have seen time and time again that the roots of poor mental health in adulthood are almost always present in unresolved childhood challenges.
It's been in my musical DNA since I was a little kid. I think musical theatre has really influenced everything I've done.
I'm a skinny kid from Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.
My roots have never left me... because the very first memory I have is my mom singing and me singing with her.
As a kid, my pops did music, too. He was in a group called Lakeside back in the day.
I think most children who are adopted ultimately want to meet their biological parents and often do. I think that is an important journey for children who are adopted to go on.
Well, Winnepeg has everything to do with my music in the sense it was where I was born and raised, cultured and all that sort of thing. A lot of my experiences come from Winnepeg.
I was named Stanley because the week before I was born, my mother and father saw a movie - 'Stanley and Livingstone.'
