Counselor Quote by Kevin Sessums

Once I got to college, it seemed that the Hamptons were a little bit too posh for me and didn't represent the kind of…

— Colson Whitehead

Growing up in a small town in upstate New York, some of the first real friendships I had were in chat rooms.

— Zoe Quinn

My second year of Ryerson, I still lived at my folks' place. I went to the attic to find some prop for a play…

— Eric McCormack

I did not grow up in the 70s but in the 80s in the Bay Area, the child of hippies in Berkeley, so I…

— Marielle Heller

I remember I grew up in Pasadena in a very, kind of, homogeneous, kind of, suburban existence and then I went to college at…

— Mike White

I met Andy Warhol in the '60s, a wonderful time, with wonderful people. There was Fred Hughes, and Jed Johnson, who I liked a…

— Pierre Berge

I came to New York for the first time with Peter Buck at age 19. We spent a week living out of a van…

— Michael Stipe

I do think that I never got tied down to any social scene. I was just into creating stuff.

— Diplo

In 1949, when I was 2, my family moved from Yonkers, NY, to a development of brick houses in Elmont, a Long Island suburb…

— Susan Lucci

From 1961 to 1964, I was fortunate enough to work at a think tank in the Kenwood neighborhood of Chicago. As a writer and…

— Karen DeCrow

I was in sit-ins to desegregate restaurants and movie houses in the '60s.

— Joe Biden

Guru and I had a house in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, for a while and we used to have wild parties there when we weren't…

— DJ Premier