When I was at school I was in choirs more than anything else from a very young age about 9 years old. And then I started taking drum lessons.

I've spent as much as 30 grand on a watch but it's not about flaunting my wealth. I don't have many extravagances but watches are my biggest one. I must have 30 of them now. I've been collecting since the age of nine when I won a black TAG in a karting event.

I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry it would be filtered through the lens of race sex and age.

I never played much golf as a kid. I caddied quite a bit but never got serious into golf until about age 15.

My parents were really really cool about supporting what I wanted to do at a really young age. I think I was about 10 when I caught the bug. They would drive me down to New York if there were auditions. When I was 12 I did this show on Broadway called 'High Society ' so we moved to New York for the run of that.

The great thing about arriving at this age is that I don't even care about my career anymore.

And from the first time I picked up a basketball at age eight - I had a lot of difficulty when I first picked up a basketball because I was a scrub - there were things that I liked about it.

To write a story about New York that only deals with people in your age and socioeconomic bracket that feels dishonest to me. So much of New York comes from everyone bumping into each other.

When it comes down to it it's about who you know and who's a fan. It's about whether you're the right age whether you're hot or not whether the studio is into you or not.

Stop living a day at a time and stop worrying about age.