I wasn't born to a wealthy or powerful family - mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.
I still am very street - I just have nicer clothes. I'm not ashamed of that.
Ninety percent of my best friends back home are plumbers, electricians, builders, or landscapers. Most of our dads worked in trades.
I grew up in Columbus, Indiana, a kind of industrial and farmland place.
I came from a real working-class show business family.
When my parents met, my mother was a waitress and my father was a dockyard worker. They were part of that post-war better-yourself generation, so they both went to night school.
My upbringing was middle-class but my parents' families were both working-class so I had this odd combination of working-class background but in a privileged position.
My grandfather was Scottish, born in the slums of Glasgow.
Richard Burton is my number one idol. One, because we come from very similar backgrounds and two, because of his fantastic talent.
I love everything about Philadelphia, and its food is like the city itself: real-deal, hearty, and without pretension. We've always had an underdog vibe as a city, but that just makes us try harder, and I love our scrappiness and scruffiness.
Manchester United is a factory workers' club. You have to respect that culture.
James Taylor may be an all-American boy but he isn't Horatio Alger, and the lionizing of many rock stars by the rock press has as much to do with old fashioned rags-to-riches stories as does the straight culture's deification of its idols.
I had a very easy middle class upbringing and never had to worry about anything. But my parents came from nothing and from broken homes, and their stories were always very interesting.
Both my parents are lawyers. They come from humble beginnings.
