My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs.

I had fun doing a lot of low-budget movies and web series. And I got back into stand-up where I started.

I started dancing in my room… I wanted to find out more about my movements. I wanted to elaborate on whatever it was that I was doing there.

I started playing the violin when I was 5, but by the time I was 12 or 13, I wasn’t really liking it.

I started doing up-and-down strumming, basically to keep time and to play fast. As time went on, I started realizing other guitar players couldn’t do it. I always went against the grain.

Then, there was Greenpeace, I remember that when they first started out with the boats in the waters, and the guys in the boats between the whales and the boats that will hunting the whales...

I’m a huge fan of James Dean, that got me started. Nowadays I smoke four packs in a day.

I started my own record label.

It’s been a fascinating thing because we didn’t really know how to write when we started South Park at all. It’s been like, we’ve just sort of grown up a bit and it’s amazing to...

I’m from Chicago, my family started a chain of movie theaters in Chicago that were around for 70 years and then one of them became the head of Paramount and the other was the head...

Film directing has perfected my theater directing. I think when I first started directing, a lot of my stuff was very lateral; I was afraid to have the actors’ backs turned away, afraid to put...

But, Eminem… No, I’ve loved rap for a long time, especially when it got out of its first period and became this gangsta rap, ya know this heavy rap thing? That’s when I started to...

Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda...

We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got...

One of my first thoughts I had when I started considering the mastectomy was, ‘What am I going to look like?’ And then, ‘What will my husband think?’

Well, I haven’t been doing that much work with other people per se. I started doing more of that.

I was 18 when I first started working at a restaurant. I was a dishwasher. I only got the job because I wanted to go to Ibiza for vacation, and washing dishes was the only...

I started in the theater when I was 10, so I grew up in the theater and was very used to that, but I love movies and television, also, obviously.

I didn’t even know Michele before we started the show but we became great friends, and still are.

I started writing songs at 17.

President Obama’s reelection started the countdown for lawmakers to address the fiscal cliff and the statutory debt limit. Unless the President and House Republicans can agree on changes to current law, the U.S. economy will...

I can say, and I am responsible for what I am saying, that they have started to commit suicide under the walls of Baghdad. We will encourage them to commit more suicides quickly.

In Britain, eponymous lifestyle branding as we know it started in the late 1960s, with two fascinating families – the Conrans and the Ashleys – who in increasingly brilliant settings and catalogues sold rather different...

I was practically born and raised at 20th Century Fox studio, started to work there selling papers when I was around seven years old, and every summer vacation from school I would work in a...

Ever since I was a little kid, I’ve felt comfortable in a suit. It all started when my mom bought me a three-piece Pierre Cardin suit. I wore that thing everywhere. Eventually I realized I...

When I started to record, I could sing in pitch, but that was maybe about it.

In my early 30s, I started to realise I was avoiding something on a personal level, but also as a writer. I was in denial about who I was, and was trying to be someone...

I went to Brunel University and very much wanted to go on to do a PhD in management, but then my acting career started to take off. In those days when you switched on the...

A friend of mine that I was in a band with started me on Kafka, which in turn led to Camus and Sartre.

Virtually all of Africa’s civil wars were started by politically marginalized or excluded groups.

Things started to get out of control when I began reading that I was a superstar.

Of course, I started really being a comics fan with the underground stuff in the ’70s.

This is a great time for the ‘guerilla marketer.’ The days when you used to have to buy expensive TV time and a yellow page ad to get started are gone.

I found a correlation between the spreading of democracy after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise in slavery. Now, as countries, former Communist countries, became so-called democratic, people started to be enslaved...

In primary school I was terrible. I don’t think I was particularly well behaved in high school, but I started to apply myself.

He actually came up to me and we started speaking. And from that conversation we were able to come to a meeting of the minds and it seemed as if it was clear to me...

At fourteen, I started sending out demo tapes.

Then people started using it more and more and it became the most downloaded software on the internet.

Age is just a number. When I started, I never worried about how long I was going to play. I had very specific goals, and that’s what I really chased.

When I started writing about art, there were no curators.

When I started at Microsoft, I was lucky enough to be part of the rise of the client-server paradigm.

As president of the American Historical Association, I started a programme to make dissertations into e-books in 1999. Before I knew it, I was involved in other electronic projects. Harvard invited me to become director...

When I started writing this, I found that I simply couldn’t take fantasy seriously, so it became humorous, and continued from there.

I had used the stretch materials for years to shape the inside of garments I made for private clients. Then I just started using them on their own.

I started LearnVest with a tiny savings account where I paid designers, technologists, and even bartered… Because I started with paying for things myself with my own savings, it sharpened my focus of how to...

I started watching actual movies when I was pretty young.

I like to make people laugh. That’s for sure. And I really like to humiliate myself and go very far in derision and stuff. But no, I like everything. I started a little bit of...

And I said – Styx – as a musical group it is our place to reflect the light that is shining on us back onto this place and say – this is where so much...

Many people who I respected were disappointed when I started ‘Wine Library TV.’ They thought I was dumbing down wine, but I always knew I was one of the biggest producers of new wine drinkers...

I started my career in parent education with the idea that we needed to let our kids go. I believed that parents were suffocating for their children. There was no room for individuality and personhood.