Before 'American Idol' and all this stuff, I was obsessed with music charts, and I used to go online to find out what was popular in other countries. I'd log on to the BBC website, and that's how I found out about artists like Natasha Bedingfield, Daniel Bedingfield and Take That.
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Related Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON I think one of the things I was shocked about was how interested the world is in 'American Idol&... NICKI MINAJ Before this DJ thing, I was hopelessly taking things apart to try to figure out how they worked. I... GRANDMASTER FLASH I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Being on 'The Vampire Diaries' feels almost like a game you play when you're a kid. When... TAYLOR KINNEY It's so easy to put music out that it's difficult to sift through stuff that I don't lik... MARK HOPPUS I don't really look at the charts at all. If anything, I try to out-do what I've done before... AVICII Any time I'm trying to find that groove on a big tempo song, I go back and listen to some Aerosm... CHRIS YOUNG I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX The funny thing about 'Take Shelter' is that a lot of people talk about how it was allegory ... JEFF NICHOLS I was a huge Bowie fan since I was 12 years old. That was the first 'punk' rock I got into i... BUZZ OSBORNE When I was on 'SNL,' I was getting weirdly anxious about being on camera, which I had never ... BILL HADER I live my life and play my music, and I don't really seek out other people's approval or acc... KENNY G When I was a kid, and God was talking to me about music, I was like, 'Okay, I'll sing mainst... LAUREN DAIGLE I've been wanting to sing for a long time. I've been singing all my life, and I've tried... FANTASIA BARRINO I'd go to Coney Island to hang out, and I saw a magician doing a rope trick on the boardwalk. I ... DAVID BLAINE Radio used to be dominated by Tom Petty and artists like that. If Tom Petty came out today, he'd... CHARLES KELLEY I'm a film buff and I was keen to find out about the response to Daniel Craig's 007. 'Em... BURN GORMAN I was in college that first semester, and I was like, 'Wow, this isn't who I am. This isn... CHANNING TATUM My first job was being a page at 'The Tonight Show.' I saw Jack Paar come out one night and ... REGIS PHILBIN I've told many people that I'm not looking to go out there and find the most beautiful girl ... SCOTTY MCCREERY When I was in the 9th grade, on Halloween night, when you're supposed to go and out and burn you... TROY GARITY I'd like to see the Amazon rainforests before they're all gone, and also the Galapagos - tha... BILL ENGVALL The possibilities are endless now, with performing, getting your music online, getting your own webs... DAVE GAHAN 'American Idol,' for me, is fizzling out. They can't package me, man... I'm an artis... TAYLOR HICKS When I was younger, my dad was making a music video for a band in Montreal. I was goofing around and... VANESSA LENGIES I get to study and I got to mimic and what I basically did was I stole from every person that I coul... MICHAEL BUBLE When I was young, I was obsessed with Michael Jordan and the Bulls. He's the only person I get s... ELENA DELLE DONNE When I was in my 20s, I used to go crazy. I used to work out two or three hours a day, like cycling;... JUSTINA MACHADO I had been obsessed with insects and creepy-crawlies: I used to get up at five o'clock in the mo... GEORGE MICHAEL I used to take my mother to Yosemite. When I turned 14, I got my driver's license, and that'... DAVE BRUBECK When I was a kid, I was kind of obsessed with that movie 'Dick Tracy.' Burger King had all t... RYAN GOSLING People know my lyrics; they know the stuff I've written, and it's all about life, love, happ... KASKADE I'm very happy with the way I look. I wake up some morning, catch myself in the bathroom mirror,... CAMERON DIAZ I never felt like someone who was boyish and coming to terms with asking girls out or anything like ... BEN MENDELSOHN I have kept a diary, WITHNAIL AND I I always tell the fans, 'Screw it! Like what you like. Listen to what you want.' Insisting t... COREY TAYLOR Back when I was helping put the swing into the swinging '60s, I used to hang out with Cathy McGo... CILLA BLACK Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH I've gotten emails from people who purchased items from an infomercial, only to find out that th... JEAN CHATZKY We aren't handicapped in any way except by what other people think. Focus on people's abilit... MARLEE MATLIN I was on a very bumpy plane ride, an overnight flight. I was so miserable, and I pulled out 'Dav... JENNIFER EGAN I was writing a scene where a guy was choking another guy to death. You can go online and type '... DANIEL H. WILSON I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously. ERINN HAYES I love finding out-of-the-box inspirations and blending them with what I've done in the past. An... AVICII I like to tell kids that I started thinking about stories when I first started reading stuff like Dr... JON SCIESZKA Plot is a framework on which to drape other things. So once that's working, I can just let it go... PATRICK NESS When I was out in Georgia doing photographs, I found myself trying to undo my own sense of compositi... SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON If I was in office, I'd get together all the chiefs and all the heads and chiefs of staffs of al... TRICK DADDY I've been asked to do 'I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!' and I do get asked to... LAURA TROTT When I started out, I tried out all my stuff on national television. There were no comedy clubs, but... ALBERT BROOKS I like to go out and see what a city's all about. ESTELLA WARREN I don't want to be the cliche American Idol dude. I want to be different, you know - that's ... PAUL MCDONALD I don't have lights, I don't have assistants, I just go and meet somebody and take a photogr... ANTON CORBIJN Whenever I'd go to restaurants, the main chef came out and was cooking for me, and he's aski... INBEE PARK I wanted to be a cheerleader, like my sister was - all the most popular and beautiful girls are chee... PAULA COLE It was like that for the first six months after 'E.T.' was in cinemas. I'd go out and ge... HENRY THOMAS Before I won 'American Idol,' I'd never been in a professional studio at all. I'm ge... CANDICE GLOVER I have trouble with long-term things. I tend to get obsessed with stuff and then move on. Roles, son... PAUL RUDD I actually used to make these little plays. I would stand there, and I would act out where I was dyi... MADISON DAVENPORT I believe that for all of us, there was this one moment in our early life when we started being obse... RUTH REINHARDT Weird stuff, for me, is not that weird. I guess if it were other people, they'd think it was wei... STEPHANIE BEATRIZ The word's out: I'm a woman, and I'm going to have trouble backing off on that. I am wha... ELIZABETH WARREN With 'Smoke Signals,' the character was so much like me growing up. I lost my parents, and I... ADAM BEACH I don't watch much television. My old TV agent used to always get mad at me because he'd sen... ZOSIA MAMET I don't like alcohol, but I still like to mess around with other stuff occasionally. I think it&... EVAN DANDO I spent every bit of my money to try and get a Mickey Mantle card, and I don't have one. Growing... JOHNNY BENCH I want to take Ryan Seacrest's job. I want his job on 'American Idol.' DAVID MAZOUZ When I first got started in this whole world of online connecting, we were combating this antiquated... WHITNEY WOLFE I did find some time to go to a record store and check out 'Headstrong' actually in the rack... ASHLEY TISDALE When I moved to New York out of college, that was my goal. To be a stage actress. And to do dramatic... RACHAEL HARRIS I'd go to the farmers' market in Santa Barbara, and I'd put out my guitar case, and I... KATY PERRY while there is definitely some country influences in my music since I used to listen to artists like... HOPE PARTLOW Right before I decided to come out, I went on a spiritual retreat called 'Changing the Inner Dia... ELLEN DEGENERES I thought every other kid was like me. I'd watch films and act them out on my own and wish I cou... KIMBERLEY NIXON I wouldn't have made it past the first round of American Idol auditions. It was months before ou... MALIN AKERMAN With L.A. it's like, yeah, there's Death Row and whatever. But I always wanted to know what ... TY DOLLA SIGN I've ended up on some website list or some other list for super right-wing people. They've b... JACK ANTONOFF I used to kind of go for it, right? Like, I'd be the one who would say, 'All right, there... DAN COLEN Modelling opened up the world to me. All my friends were bohemian artists and were a little bit appa... CHRISTIE BRINKLEY I was born in 1991, and 'Harry Potter' came out in '97, so, you know, I was really obses... SAMANTHA SHANNON I used to dream about Gorbachev before he lost power. I'd go into a panic because I was meeting ... HUGH GRANT I really like Jeff Lewis and 'Flipping Out' and 'Interior Therapy.' I don't know... CHRIS LILLEY All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all j... OZZY OSBOURNE All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all j... NEIL YOUNG I found out that I'd broken up with someone when I wasn't even aware I was going out with th... ELLA EYRE The NBA's a Fortune 500 company. That's how you look at it. And all the other Fortune 500 co... CARMELO ANTHONY 'American Idol' is sometimes lumped with reality shows and it has that element - folks-next-... TOM SHALES I'd read Stone Cold's biography about how he lived on, like, raw potatoes, and I thought, th... BECKY LYNCH It was interesting to find how dominating American vision is all over the world. I think there's... K'NAAN I'm scared of the water, and I hate the sea. I'd be all right if it was clear and I could se... HANNAH MILLS The music I always liked as a kid was stuff I could bum out to and realize, 'Hey, someone else f... TRENT REZNOR I'm asking God to bless you with something that unsettles you, disturbs you, and upsets you. CRAIG GROESCHEL When I was a kid just starting out on the radio, I would always watch people. And I'd see the in... EDDIE TRUNK I never looked at basketball as work. I always enjoyed it as my hobby. I loved it. Once that love is... DIRK NOWITZKI On bad days, I think I'd like to be a plastic surgeon who goes to Third World countries and oper... TAMA JANOWITZ You know, I never knew if I had any talent when I started in this business. My first job was being a... REGIS PHILBIN
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DAVID CASSIDY I was silver-white by the time I was 35, but having grey hair makes me look washed out. My wife and ... DAVID CASSIDY I look fine. I've had no surgery apart from an operation I had decades ago to remove the fat und... DAVID CASSIDY I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds. DAVID CASSIDY All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger... DAVID BOWIE I read in one fan magazine that I was very self-centered. And I am. DAVID CASSIDY We are too occupied with celebrity. Believe me, it's not what it's cracked to be. DAVID CASSIDY All I had done for five years was work 18 hours a day all over the world. I needed to step back and ... DAVID CASSIDY Everything in my life was about performance when I was doing 'The Partridge Family.' DAVID CASSIDY My mother, Evelyn, was an actress and singer, and my father, Jack, was an actor. My earliest recolle... DAVID CASSIDY Once they began doing 'Celebrity Apprentice,' apparently the audience wasn't that keen o... DAVID CASSIDY My music was never considered cool, but I've always felt that connection with the audience. DAVID CASSIDY I've always had a special relationship with the U.K. fans, because even when I wasn't workin... DAVID CASSIDY My dad left when I was 3 1/2, and he left my mom and I. DAVID CASSIDY I don't play nostalgia acts. I don't play nostalgia shows. DAVID CASSIDY I don't need to remind myself of the trophies. I know what I accomplished. DAVID CASSIDY What I want is credibility I got as a songwriter and actor and doing 'Blood Brothers' on Bro... DAVID CASSIDY In the '80s, it was difficult and frustrating to appear in the theater and TV again, even though... DAVID CASSIDY All that stuff - 'teen idol' - that wasn't me. DAVID CASSIDY I wasn't ever a bad guy, and I was never arrested or anything like that, but I was a wild boy in... DAVID CASSIDY I saw Jimi Hendrix - it must have been four times. And he was incomparable, and his legend lives on. DAVID CASSIDY Acting was absolutely my first focus. I graduated high school in L.A., and two weeks afterwards, I m... DAVID CASSIDY I've really sensed that people have an affection for me. DAVID CASSIDY I've done an enormous amount of bringing light into people's lives, and I'm very proud o... DAVID CASSIDY I bought my first horse when I was 15. I always loved racing and I started studying about breeding a... DAVID CASSIDY I've always had a love for horses since I was really young. When I was 5 years old, the only thi... DAVID CASSIDY My mother gave up a good part of her career to look after me. DAVID CASSIDY In a very short period of time, actors can become kind of relevant and hot. DAVID CASSIDY I played in garage bands and rock and roll bands when I was in junior high and high school and saw s... DAVID CASSIDY