As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.

I always wanted to write fiction. Always. As far back as I can remember it's been integral to my sense of myself - everything else was always a displacement activity.

I wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.

My sole focus as far back as I can remember was all about my dream to become a singer.

I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Guthrie song.

I'd always felt from as far back as I can remember that where the issue of marriage is concerned, individuals should have the opportunity to marry and not be discriminated against.