The first song I did was over a Chief Keef beat - 'Understand Me.' I did that in, like, 2011 or 2012, I think.

I used to call Kanye, Kanye pick up on the first ring, now Kanye don't even got no phone, that's how much times have changed.

Once upon a time, I liked to call myself 'The Grandfather of NXT' because I was one of the first to come up as I was, from NXT.

I did my first little kids' musical, 'The Sound of Music,' at 5, in a jungle gym, essentially. I was a made-up Von Trapp child, Ingrid Von Trapp.

I'm a television presenter, television is my first love.

The first thing I wanted to be was an actor, even before I wanted to be a singer, before I discovered I could sing.

'District 9' was a singular anti-Apartheid metaphor, and 'Elysium' is a more general metaphor about immigration and how the First World and Third World meet. But the thing that I like the most about...

Swishahouse, it started off as just a crew making mixtapes and that's when I got down with it back in like 1998. It wasn't a record label at first. It was all just for promotion, for fun, and we just...

I'll never forget my first Art Basel.

I started off as a model maker, so the first part of my career was a model maker and then a motion control camera operator, so I shot a lot of miniatures.

My first competition, I guess, singing-wise, I was six years old, and there's a video of it, too. I'm just, like, stick straight. I'm not moving at all, and I'm just singing.

I was involved with a sports car called Cizeta-Moroder, which was the first 16-cylinder car, beautiful. I think we sold about eight cars, and then in '92 the economic crash came, and we had to close...

I think my first audition was for a local musical. It was quick. I didn't get the role.

'Halloween' is such a classic, and I think that was one of the first horror movies I've ever watched.

My parents told me, 'Skating is a privilege, not a right, and school always comes first.'

Recording with Meek Mill for me was like when Allen Iverson played with Michael Jordan for the first time.

When I was playing well, nobody was saying I was playing well. When I was playing badly, I would be the first one on the front of the journal.

I was born in Korea and left before my first birthday.

The first rule to living in America is 'Stop tap dancing, you fool!'.

You always want to score on your first possession.

I've been happy to have been here since my first day, and I'm going to be happy to retire as a Cardinal because this organization means a lot to me and this city means a lot to me.

My first job out of school was to do basic research at Johns Hopkins University's applied physics lab.

The secrets of small towns have fascinated writers and readers since the first psychological thriller was penned.

First and foremost, you want to be truthful as a storyteller.

I have songs - even from my first album, I've always been on some socially conscience/love whatever music, you know?

I think I made my first short fiction sale in 2005. I had been writing unsuccessfully before that.

I had three influential teachers. The first was Uta Hagen. The second two, Bobby Lewis and my late husband, Charles Kakatsakis, were both from the Actors Studio.

It's almost uncanny to receive a prize named in honor of Bernard Malamud. I must have been in my early teens when 'The Magic Barrel' was published and I first read it.

I was reading some books by Michel Houellebecq, and the first thing that comes to mind is that they're really funny, all the ways they describe the most depressing things.

'Empire of the Sun' is one of the films that I often think about. I think it had a profound effect on me when I first watched it as a teenager.