I come from a blue-collar family. My FATHER worked at the American Can Company as a mechanic. He broke his back and was DISABLED, and the first MEMORY I have of him is in the hospital. My mother was a WORKING mother - she had two jobs. Everybody in the HOUSE had to help out.

A great deal has been said about my COMMITMENT not to raise taxes. It's a CORE value - it's common sense - it's IMPORTANT to keeping and growing JOBS - and it's MAINSTREAM!

I was obsessed with The Who. I would have ACCEPTED a marriage proposal from Roger Daltrey on the spot. I went to all of their shows in San Francisco and some in L.A. That was as close as I GOT to being a GROUPIE.

Health coverage in the form of short-term, limited-duration PLANS has LONG been widely AVAILABLE to individuals in CIRCUMSTANCES where they are unable to access traditional coverage, such as those between jobs or STUDENTS taking a semester off from school.

After it's FINISHED, SOMETIMES I can trace a path that goes BACK to the POSSIBLE source of inspiration.

Having children is life-changing, to state the OBVIOUS. It's a gigantic SHIFT in your life and I WELCOMED it.

I THINK I'm one of LIFE's copers. And PICKING myself up and dusting myself off and STARTING all over again is one of my mottoes, ACTUALLY.

I am on Vine. It's another early-adopter kind of thing. I'm trying to figure out what I'm going to do with it. What's INTERESTING about it is that everybody knows these amazing restrictions we've put on it: I have to USE my IPHONE, I can only use one continuous take, I cannot edit afterwards, I cannot put SOUND afterwards.

There EXIST THOUSANDS of Americans who have AIDS-defining DISEASES but are HIV NEGATIVE.