I was born in Morocco and lived there until I was 13; I'm really proud of my heritage.
Nineties hip-hop was a big influence for me; it still is. I love '90s everything. And it's when I was born, too. I'm a '90s kid for sure.
I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never thought of the word 'poor' 'til I got to be a man, but when you live in a house that you can always peek out of and see what kind of day it is, you're not doing so well. And your rest room is not inside the house.
I'm told I was born in Canada, but I was adopted, and I grew up in Maine and Massachusetts.
My first failure was to be born a child not wanted by his father or mother, as they parted shortly after I was born.
People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn't have anything. It's influenced the way I look at the world.
I was born in San Francisco's Chinatown in 1948 but grew up in a black neighborhood. During elementary and middle school, I commuted to a bilingual school in Chinatown. So I did not confront white American culture until high school.
I was always in new schools and had British parents, which was not the norm, and I think there was also... I'm not particularly religious, but I was born Jewish, and I always felt like the outsider because I wasn't Christian or Catholic.
I was born curious.
Both my parents are English and I was born in West Africa, and I moved around as a kid, lived in Bristol, lived in Buckinghamshire and Surrey as a kid, and then moved when I was 16.