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When I was growing up, I was really into 'Rent' and I actually slept on the street in New York all night to get to sit in the first few rows for it.

My biggest break wasn't 'Rent;' it was the first job that ever paid me. I couldn't believe that they were paying me all that money to go around the country and do Shakespeare. I would have done it for free.

I've had to do all kinds of jobs to pay the rent. I've even worked in a Cornish tin mine.

My total year's income from working as hard as I possibly could from writing went from like $30 one year to about $70 the next year. And it made me realize that maybe you couldn't really pay the rent that way.

I want 'Rent' to last forever.

I'm proud I've been able to pay my rent doing what I love because I hate real jobs.

All I ever wanted to do was be able to pay my rent.

There will always be ways to pay my rent, whether I wind up having to be a waitress on the side or whatever it is, but I think it's so important for me to do things that I'm passionate about.

Up until the time I was 31 years old, in Spain, I still didn't know how I was going to pay the rent.

It's ironic, really, because I've spent the bulk of my career making my living in a very commercial realm: network television. And yet, my sensibilities don't necessarily line up with how I pay my rent.