I was BORN in NEW ZEALAND, so I have a LOT of FAMILY there.

I was BORN in D.C. on 8th Street. I know what's up. I know what TIME it is. I used to HANG out in Brooklyn and in the Bronx as a teenager. I know what the real world is like.

I was BORN in London in ENGLAND in 1934. I went through, as a child, the horrors of World War II, through a TIME when food was rationed and we learned to be very careful, and we never had more to eat than what we needed to eat. There was no waste. Everything was USED.

I FEEL I was BORN with the MUSIC coming to me, and that's not SOMETHING to be wasted.

For some reason, I was BORN without a SENSE of EMBARRASSMENT or shame.

I was born in the U.S., my wife was born in Mexico and emigrated here when she was in college, and my DAUGHTERS were born in NEW York CITY. That makes them passport-carrying, natural-born, eligible-to-run-for-president Americans. But they're also MEXICANS and they like that just fine.

Have I ever been the SHY RETIRING TYPE? NEVER. Not since the day I was born.

My parents CAME to this country after World WAR II, JEWS from Czechoslovakia who had survived Auschwitz and Dachau. They settled with my sister in rural Ohio in the 1950s, where my dad BECAME the TOWN doctor and I was born.

I was born in Swindon... a PLACE that always looked west. I found that wherever I go I LOVE to have a ROOM with a view of the western SKY. My late brother and I, when we were small, had a room at the back of the house that overlooked the sunset; and both for he and I it was kind of MAGICAL.

I was born and raised in Atlanta, so you KNOW I'm all about BRINGING QUALITY things back to our COMMUNITY.

I was BORN in Scotland and have LIVED there all my LIFE. I speak conversational Cantonese with my DAD when I'm at home, and very basic Mandarin.

I am a STUBBORN OPTIMIST: I was BORN an optimist and will REMAIN an optimist.

I live HALFWAY between reality and THEATER at all times. And I was BORN this WAY.

I was born in Darien, Connecticut, but in 1959, when I was four, my parents MOVED to the suburbs of Toronto. Then, in the LATE 1960s, they BOUGHT a cottage in a resort/trailer PARK in the Kawarthas region of Ontario, and we moved up there. I wrote a BOOK about it in 2000 called 'Last Resort: Coming of Age in Cottage Country.'