Growing up in a lower-income family, you don't have the resources to make ends meet and you have to find creative ways to get by.

Learning how to fly, for me, was so euphoric.

My job is about playing people. And I think once you lose touch with people, what do you play?

Oh, the Places You'll Go!,' by Dr. Seuss, is still one of my favorite books ever.

The great universal family of men is a utopia worthy of the most mediocre logic.

The way we finance homes in this country is slow, filled with middlemen, who run a nonstandardized evaluation process. This makes financing a home cumbersome and difficult.

Hot Fuss' was all based on fantasy. The English influences, the makeup - they were what I imagined rock was. I'm a dreamer, you know? So I dug into that dream and made 'Hot Fuss.' But hearing people call us 'the best British band from America' made me wonder about my family and who I was.

Fans love Sosa for his exuberance, for the kisses he blows to his mother, wife and four children. He is Slammin' Sammy, a fairy-tale figure rising from poverty in the Dominican Republic to the 55th floor above Chicago's Lake Shore Drive.