I've always been comfortable being the first person at a party, metaphorically speaking - being the first person on the dance floor, saying, 'This is where it's happening, people, and if you don't think so, that's cool, but I think you're missing out.' That's my general philosophy, and it's served me pretty well.
Michael was the first person to show me what it meant to be a star... but you cannot be that star and not accept all the things that came with it.
It's an incredible experience to interact with fans in first person, get immediate responses to your music and see the madness that your music creates.
If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I'd call.
Getting to work with Edie Falco and watching her be a quiet presence - but a very powerful presence - and so brilliant and free? That was the first person I saw where I was like, 'I want to emulate that.'
The first person who contacted us was the assistant to President Eisenhower... in the White House.
I was always the first person in the theater all the time. If it was an eight-o'clock curtain, I was here at five-thirty, and it wasn't that I needed to vocalize, because I was all warmed up. I couldn't wait for it to begin.
Now I'm trying to work outside first person. I do plan to write more books.
The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.
For me, that's always been one of the great charms of the first person: we gain access to a very personal, private kind of music.
