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When I was a little girl, I always dreamed of being a country music singer, but I never dreamed I...
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CHARLES KELLEY I've always listened to and loved country music ever since I was a kid.
LAURA BELL BUNDY![]()
My grandma said - when I was really young and I'd sing along to the radio - why do you sing in a...
EMMA WATSON When I was a kid, I had ambitions for being a television announcer, which was before television took...
DICK VAN DYKE I love to sing big rock and roll songs; I love to sing country-pop stuff, and then I love to sing so...
ELLE KING![]()
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DWIGHT YOAKAM My mom wanted to be a country singer, too, so country was always being played. And my girlfriends an...
JANA KRAMER I actually started singing country music at 4 years old, right when I started learning how to sing. ...
CASSADEE POPE![]()
I grew up on a farm where we had one radio station and it was all country.
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OTIS RUSH![]()
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That was the big thing when I was growing up, singing on the radio. The extent of my dream was to si...
JOHNNY CASH I used to go around the country performing. I was in my 20s; I had no fear. But then I had a baby, a...
JAIME PRESSLY When I started at XCRF in 1960, Mexico was the most lenient country in the world when it came to rad...
WOLFMAN JACK I have always loved music. My mom used to sing with my sister and I when I was younger, and I was in...
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REEVE CARNEY I got to where I couldn't listen to country radio, ... Country music is supposed to have steel and f...
GRETCHEN WILSON When I was a kid, I used to sneak down the stairs when my folks were listening to 'The Witch'...
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With consolidation you have fewer and fewer voices, ... I always thought that the strength of radio ...
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LAURA BELL BUNDY I've always been fascinated with radio and broadcasting. I did fake radio shows as a kid, where ...
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I was a little kid, 10 or 12, ... I remember exactly ... transistor radios had just happened. When t...
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RICK DANKO I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; ...
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MIKE DIRNT I knew I could sing. That one thing I did believe in was that I could sing, but then constantly gett...
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SAM HUNT When I was a kid, I used to love it when one of my friends would jump out from behind a door and try...
PATRICK CARMAN I had always dreamed of winning Wimbledon and when it happened it was very stressful. It was more of...
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When I was a little kid growing up in Iceland, I always dreamed about creating something that could ...
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EMILE HIRSCH![]()
I used to have acne when I was a kid growing up. You can imagine how serious that was in making you ...
MIKE WALLACE![]()
My first crush was Hayley Mills when I was a little kid in England. I used to kiss her picture goodn...
RICK SPRINGFIELD while there is definitely some country influences in my music since I used to listen to artists like...
HOPE PARTLOW If it wasn't for Kenny Rogers, I don't think I would be in country music. He was that guy wh...
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I always wanted to know, and I always used to daydream, about what it would be like to stand on a re...
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MIA WASIKOWSKA![]()
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LAKE BELL I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all cam...
LAURA BELL BUNDY When I was first starting, I had stars in my eyes.
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I dreamed I lived in another's skin,
I dreamed I ...
CLIVE BARKER![]()
I've never really been a traditional country kind of guy. I wanted my music to sound more like t...
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When I was in elementary school, I was a big fan of the zip-off pants that could be turned into shor...
HAYLEY WILLIAMS I used to sing the 'Sound of Music' when I was 2.
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MAREN MORRIS I was kind of going that route with my country music. Indie country. Which would work, if I was play...
LAURA BELL BUNDY I think I always sang, I always used to listen to old Bessie Smith records, and Kate Smith. And Bill...
BEA ARTHUR I obviously had my reggae, but I got quite into rockabilly when I was a kid, because I was trying to...
PAUL SIMONON I started collecting vinyl since I was about 14. But prior to that, I was always interested in knowi...
CILLA CALDERON![]()
When I was younger, I always dreamed of being a legend, to be remembered in figure skating.
MICHELLE KWAN![]()
I was born in the middle of the century in the middle of the country, a classic Baby Boomer.
MITT ROMNEY I had a suit made for me when I was five. It was double-breasted, mohair and purple. My mother was v...
OZWALD BOATENG![]()
Oh, I think country has changed tremendously. I think country has totally changed. Country music whe...
JOHN MELLENCAMP![]()
I think we have lost our groove as a country. One of the reasons was the attack on 9/11. We got knoc...
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I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take pho...
GARRETT HEDLUND![]()
My older brother was into Creedence Clearwater Revival and ZZ Top, and my sister was into pop radio....
MARTINA MCBRIDE![]()
And I used to think that proof that I had religion was whether I knew how to sing all of the songs.
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CARLENE CARTER![]()
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CHARLES KELLEY
GARY LOPEZ I listened to a battery radio, old country and pop stuff. Because I was singing all the time, my dad...
GLEN CAMPBELL
When I was a little girl, I always dreamed of being a country music singer, but I never dreamed I... TRISHA YEARWOOD Radio used to be dominated by Tom Petty and artists like that. If Tom Petty came out today, he'd...
CHARLES KELLEY I've always listened to and loved country music ever since I was a kid.
LAURA BELL BUNDY
My grandma said - when I was really young and I'd sing along to the radio - why do you sing in a... EMMA WATSON When I was a kid, I had ambitions for being a television announcer, which was before television took...
DICK VAN DYKE I love to sing big rock and roll songs; I love to sing country-pop stuff, and then I love to sing so...
ELLE KING
I was always just into my music and maybe into trying to save the world a little bit. I never really... DON MCLEAN I wish I could've been friends with Charlie Parker and played with him. That's my period. I ...
CHARLIE HADEN
Every afternoon I listened to the Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts and when I was four, I told my... DIXIE CARTER My background was always more soulful pop. I was named after Ella Fitzgerald, and when I was a kid, ...
ELLA EYRE
Ironically, the success I've experienced at country radio has left me ostracized from pop and ot... DWIGHT YOAKAM My mom wanted to be a country singer, too, so country was always being played. And my girlfriends an...
JANA KRAMER I actually started singing country music at 4 years old, right when I started learning how to sing. ...
CASSADEE POPE
I grew up on a farm where we had one radio station and it was all country. GARRETT HEDLUND
I remember that in '81, country radio was pretty pop, and everybody wanted a crossover record - ... GEORGE STRAIT I used to listen to country and western and blues, John Lee Hooker, spirituals, the Bluegrass Boys, ...
OTIS RUSH
Musically, I actually grew up listening to country music as a kid, like George Strait, Alan Jackson.... AUSTIN MAHONE People don't listen to one radio station. On iTunes you can mix different worlds and bring count...
NATASHA BEDINGFIELD
When I was an adolescent, I abandoned my country at 23 years to come to Paris to know Andre Breton, ... ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Count...
CARL WILSON
I first met Bev Shea while in Chicago when he was on Moody Radio. As a young man starting my ministr... BILLY GRAHAM
I regret that I had to leave my country. But I had to do it in order to achieve and decide my own fa... MARTINA NAVRATILOVA
As a kid, I dreamed of being a pop star, a glamorous woman and traveling the world. And I've don... SAMANTHA FOX
If you had told me when I was starting out that I would be coming down to Nashville, kind of weaving... KID ROCK
That was the big thing when I was growing up, singing on the radio. The extent of my dream was to si... JOHNNY CASH I used to go around the country performing. I was in my 20s; I had no fear. But then I had a baby, a...
JAIME PRESSLY When I started at XCRF in 1960, Mexico was the most lenient country in the world when it came to rad...
WOLFMAN JACK I have always loved music. My mom used to sing with my sister and I when I was younger, and I was in...
RACHEL PLATTEN
I had this old wind-up phonograph when I was a kid, and I'd listen to records. And the radio. TINY TIM When I was growing up as a kid I was playing football or baseball or something else in the back yard...
BRIAN WELLS
I used to get called 'Ferrari' when I was a kid because I was always running everywhere. MO FARAH
I don't live anywhere. I have always dreamed of moving out of my country because Sweden is borin... LYKKE LI My dad, being a jingle writer, and my mom, being a jingle singer, they hooked me up with some people...
REEVE CARNEY I got to where I couldn't listen to country radio, ... Country music is supposed to have steel and f...
GRETCHEN WILSON When I was a kid, I used to sneak down the stairs when my folks were listening to 'The Witch'...
AL FELDSTEIN I was always into fashion, and used to go on spending sprees when I was a university student in Miam...
CARMEN BUSQUETS I was born and raised in Lancaster, Pennsylvania - in Amish Country!
JONATHAN GROFF Being on 'The Vampire Diaries' feels almost like a game you play when you're a kid. When...
TAYLOR KINNEY
With consolidation you have fewer and fewer voices, ... I always thought that the strength of radio ... BOB EDWARDS I used to be really nervous when I sang. Like, when I was a kid starting young, 18 and 19, and my da...
DAN AUERBACH Pulling on your country's shirt is the greatest honour a footballer can have. It's what I al...
WAYNE ROONEY What I loved about country music when I was a kid was the Grand Ole Opry, was 'Hee Haw,' was...
LAURA BELL BUNDY I've always been fascinated with radio and broadcasting. I did fake radio shows as a kid, where ...
SCOTT AUKERMAN
I was a little kid, 10 or 12, ... I remember exactly ... transistor radios had just happened. When t... CHRISTOPHER WALKEN Country artists, I met a lot of them when I was five, six years old. I had an uncle who was a countr...
RICK DANKO I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; ...
R. L. STINE
When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to st... THOMAS PAINE
When I was a kid, I used to be afraid of the dark. I would stand at my door, turn the light off and ... BRIAN KRAUSE
When I was a kid, my influences were just my early friends' punk rock bands and listening to the rad... MIKE DIRNT I knew I could sing. That one thing I did believe in was that I could sing, but then constantly gett...
REBECCA FERGUSON Country taught me how to sing, it put me on a path. But I was never going to be locked into a formul...
EMMYLOU HARRIS
Obviously, I love country music, so I wanna be able to live in the country music genre and then play... SAM HUNT When I was a kid, I used to love it when one of my friends would jump out from behind a door and try...
PATRICK CARMAN I had always dreamed of winning Wimbledon and when it happened it was very stressful. It was more of...
PAT CASH When I am seriously composing, sometimes a phrase will come into my head, a catch phrase. When I was...
TOM GLAZER
When I was a little kid growing up in Iceland, I always dreamed about creating something that could ... MAGNUS SCHEVING Well, when I was a kid and I watched 'Speed Racer,' I used to always watch it in the morning...
EMILE HIRSCH
I used to have acne when I was a kid growing up. You can imagine how serious that was in making you ... MIKE WALLACE
My first crush was Hayley Mills when I was a little kid in England. I used to kiss her picture goodn... RICK SPRINGFIELD while there is definitely some country influences in my music since I used to listen to artists like...
HOPE PARTLOW If it wasn't for Kenny Rogers, I don't think I would be in country music. He was that guy wh...
DARIUS RUCKER
I always wanted to know, and I always used to daydream, about what it would be like to stand on a re... TAYLOR SWIFT
When I was a kid, I used to imagine animals running under my bed. I told my dad, and he solved the p... LOU BROCK It was not cool to be that fun, bubbly kid, so I would just go off on my own and sing and make up so...
ELLE VARNER
I was a bit of a handful when I was a kid because I was quite hyperactive. Even in the house my mum ... ZAYN MALIK
My biggest hero when I was a kid was Will Smith. I used to watch 'Fresh Prince,' and I was a... JESSE MCCARTNEY I was probably a bit of a mimic when I was a kid, and I used to imitate people.
MIA WASIKOWSKA
I love fashion. I always have. When I was a kid, I was in almost full-on costumes when I went to sch... LAKE BELL I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all cam...
LAURA BELL BUNDY When I was first starting, I had stars in my eyes.
KC GRIMMETT It's quite interesting that in my growing up I had several influences. We had gospel music on ca...
LIONEL RICHIE
When I was a little kid I thought I would grow up to be black and sing jazz in nightclubs. MOLLY RINGWALD
I dreamed I spoke in another's language,I dreamed I lived in another's skin,
I dreamed I ...
CLIVE BARKER
I've never really been a traditional country kind of guy. I wanted my music to sound more like t... BRYAN WHITE
When I was in elementary school, I was a big fan of the zip-off pants that could be turned into shor... HAYLEY WILLIAMS I used to sing the 'Sound of Music' when I was 2.
HUNTER HALL I've always had an ear for melodies, and they veer pop. My lyrics are more country - what I love...
MAREN MORRIS I was kind of going that route with my country music. Indie country. Which would work, if I was play...
LAURA BELL BUNDY I think I always sang, I always used to listen to old Bessie Smith records, and Kate Smith. And Bill...
BEA ARTHUR I obviously had my reggae, but I got quite into rockabilly when I was a kid, because I was trying to...
PAUL SIMONON I started collecting vinyl since I was about 14. But prior to that, I was always interested in knowi...
CILLA CALDERON
When I was younger, I always dreamed of being a legend, to be remembered in figure skating. MICHELLE KWAN
I was born in the middle of the century in the middle of the country, a classic Baby Boomer. MITT ROMNEY I had a suit made for me when I was five. It was double-breasted, mohair and purple. My mother was v...
OZWALD BOATENG
Oh, I think country has changed tremendously. I think country has totally changed. Country music whe... JOHN MELLENCAMP
I think we have lost our groove as a country. One of the reasons was the attack on 9/11. We got knoc... THOMAS FRIEDMAN When I was engaged in the struggle for my country, I was very young. My horizons were open.
AHMED BEN BELLA
I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take pho... GARRETT HEDLUND
My older brother was into Creedence Clearwater Revival and ZZ Top, and my sister was into pop radio.... MARTINA MCBRIDE
And I used to think that proof that I had religion was whether I knew how to sing all of the songs. BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON In the late '70s, I was falling into the middle lane. I was way too country to be rock, and way ...
CARLENE CARTER
I am a classic Star Trek fanatic. When I was a kid, my mom and I used to go to conventions. RACHEL COHN I always was getting into trouble some way, because I was really good at lying when I was a kid.
IAN HARDING My first love was acting. I went to Sidney Poitier films as a kid. I sat in the theater and dreamed ...
CARL WEATHERS
When I was a kid, I played basketball religiously. I begged my mom to get me voice lessons because I... JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE In sports, I was representing my country, but in politics I represent people directly. I have always...
RAJYAVARDHAN SINGH RATHORE
I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mothe... RUBEN BLADES I feel like fans who like old Southern rock and country, and more lyric-driven songs in general, hav...
CHARLES KELLEY
Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has ... 
The worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and t... 
A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just. 
The proper study of Mankind is Man. 
Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude. 
The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still. 