Related
My mom and dad played this music all the time when I was growing up, so to me songs by Jerry Lee and...
CHRIS ISAAK Just being out there with my dad, that was the best time growing up.
BRYAN HARSIN When I was five years old, my parents gave me a drum set for Christmas. My mom played the piano, and...
GARRY MARSHALL I like country music. I'm not going to lie. I'm from the South, and I grew up on it. My dad ...
KIM DICKENS![]()
Tango was very popular in Panama at the time when I was growing up. In the Fifties in Panama, the ra...
RUBEN BLADES![]()
Growing up, I remember thinking country music was all honky-tonks and beer and trucks - Britney Spea...
KELSEA BALLERINI![]()
My dad took me to all the best rock and punk shows when I was growing up and music has always been a...
WINONA RYDER My mom was into Kwanzaa when I was growing up. We used to come to the SHAPE Center all the time. Kwa...
ANGELA LINDSEY I was an all-sport athlete growing up. My dad, I think, hoped I would go to college on a scholarship...
T. J. PERKINS I was essentially raised on blues music. My dad was a blues musician around Dublin when I was a baby...
HOZIER Both of my parents were super music lovers when I was growing up - they had a massive record and tap...
MADI DIAZ![]()
My mom and dad got divorced when I was very young, and growing up in a family where the head of the ...
DAVE MUSTAINE My dad was a blues musician around Dublin when I was a baby, so the only music I would listen to gro...
HOZIER I was a big fan of Aaliyah's. Growing up, my mom was a big fan of her music. When I grew to have...
ALEXANDRA SHIPP My dad is a huge folk music fan, so growing up, there were always records playing in my house. Carol...
JAKE EPSTEIN My family's just really into the sport. My sister played, my mom played and my dad played baseball. ...
LAUREN GIBSON I think my love of music comes from my dad. I was born with an ear for music, like him, and started ...
BLAKE MICHAEL![]()
There was always a piano in the house when I was growing up - my dad played, and I thought it was co...
LAURA MVULA![]()
Going to the Academy Awards is something I remember since I was six, when I went with my mom for the...
LAURA DERN My mother told me when I was a toddler and in the crib that they would have music playing, and the t...
ROBBIE ROBERTSON![]()
My dad left when I was 3 1/2, and he left my mom and I.
DAVID CASSIDY![]()
It was so weird that I would end up directing 'The Greatest Game Ever Played,' because, y...
BILL PAXTON My mom was very strict when I was growing up. I could not talk to boys until I was 18. I had to stud...
COCO LEE![]()
It was a free-for-all with music when I was growing up. My mother was a huge music fanatic so I was ...
TIG NOTARO My mom was a folk singer and Celtic harpist. My dad was in a barbershop quartet and my great grandma...
SKYLAR GREY Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad wor...
SAM BARRY![]()
My mom was Sicilian, my dad was Sicilian. Mom was a great cook, but all the women were.
CHAZZ PALMINTERI My dad is a lawyer and my mom is an artist. So growing up was exactly what it sounds like - strict h...
TY SEGALL I grew up with the Highwaymen, which was Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristo...
CHRISTIAN KANE![]()
When I was growing up, my mother was always a friend to my siblings and me (in addition to being all...
MARLO THOMAS![]()
I think when I was about 12 or 13, my dad started taking me out to the local golf course, and that&#...
JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE There was nothing more I wanted to do than to see my dad react well to my music. I still do. I send ...
DAN REYNOLDS![]()
When I was growing up we didn't have a massive house and there were five women running around, so my...
LOUIS TOMLINSON![]()
I like her music. I think it's good. And well, I think she's pretty ... even though she's older than...
ERIC CLAPTON![]()
When I was growing up, I was the most pretentious person I have ever met. I only read obscure books ...
MOBY I would think, to me, growing up in the south, growing up with all the gospel music, singing in the ...
JACKIE DESHANNON![]()
When I was younger, I had a perm, and it was really big. My mom was a hairdresser, so even my dad ha...
HEIDI KLUM When I was growing up, kids wouldn't come out to my place because I was too far out in the country.
DAVE BLACK![]()
When I was 7, my dad asked his friend to teach me. I played my first tournament competition when I w...
YANI TSENG![]()
When I was 15, my mom and I packed everything up and moved to Nashville so I could pursue my dream i...
KELSEA BALLERINI![]()
It's so funny because my mom is Thai and my dad is this big American guy - and our food tastes w...
CHRISSY TEIGEN It's quite interesting that in my growing up I had several influences. We had gospel music on ca...
LIONEL RICHIE He played his best game ever. I think he was just exhausted at that point and when he started to mis...
GEORGE FRANCK When I was a kid growing up, my dad being a football coach, he asked the same question of all the as...
CHUCK PAGANO My mom is a therapist, and my dad has a doctorate in psychology, and growing up, I felt 'very un...
RACHEL PLATTEN![]()
Oh, I think country has changed tremendously. I think country has totally changed. Country music whe...
JOHN MELLENCAMP I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all cam...
LAURA BELL BUNDY![]()
Our last jam session was this past Christmas. Dad played his harmonica, mom sang in English and Ital...
TONY VISCONTI My mom was a dancer, my dad's a singer and I've always had that kind of music in my life.
ELVIS STOJKO![]()
When I was growing up, Dr. Seuss was really my favorite. There was something about the lyrical natur...
TIM BURTON![]()
I think one of my very favorite films of all time was with Peter Sellers when he played Chauncey, th...
BLYTHE DANNER![]()
The most ironic thing is my grandfather has his masters in music composition; he was a jazz composer...
TRAVIS SCOTT The first seven years of my life, me, my mom and dad and my four older siblings lived in a suburb of...
ERIK HASSLE There was a modeling agency in my little town where I got my start, but the opportunity came to work...
JULIA VOTH I'm a first - I was the first person in my family born in the United States. My mom is from Croa...
OTTESSA MOSHFEGH My dad being a DJ, I heard all the hits, no matter what. My mom always had on the radio because my d...
CHAD CHANNING![]()
Mum and dad were very much friends, and up to life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was gro...
KATE WINSLET My dad was so much fun growing up.
ABBY ELLIOTT Growing up, you always want to hang with your dad - go fishing or whatever. But my dad was always wo...
VICTOR OLADIPO I loved theatre and film when I was growing up in Harpenden, Hertfordshire. My mum's a reflexolo...
LAURA HADDOCK![]()
But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24.
RACHAEL LEIGH COOK![]()
There was always music in our home. My mom and my dad loved music. I remember when we were kids we w...
QUEEN LATIFAH![]()
When I was a kid, I played basketball religiously. I begged my mom to get me voice lessons because I...
JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE I listened to a battery radio, old country and pop stuff. Because I was singing all the time, my dad...
GLEN CAMPBELL![]()
I bugged my mom and dad to 'get me inside the television set' when I was about four years ol...
BILL MUMY![]()
When I was growing up, my parents were almost involved in various volunteer things. My dad was head ...
BILL GATES![]()
My dad is a civil engineer, and my mom is a stay-at-home mom. The fact that my parents weren't r...
LORDE My dad was an amazing father. He was very loving and supportive. He was the best dad you could ever ...
KRISTIN HAWKINS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES I think he was always there for us. If you ever wanted support, he was there to give you the support...
GARY BELL When I was coming up, I practiced all the time because I thought if I didn't I couldn't do my best.
HERBIE HANCOCK When I was growing up, my dad was away a lot. He did a lot of work in crisis zones, places like Ugan...
JOE ALWYN My father had to go back to Iran to take care of his father when I was 13 and was detained for six y...
DARA KHOSROWSHAHI![]()
I grew up listening to 1980s country music, mostly. Early '90s. That time period was my favorite...
BLAKE SHELTON![]()
When I was growing up, there were two things that were unpopular in my house. One was me, and the ot...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN My two favorite musicals growing up in were 'Annie' and 'Sweeney Todd,' and my best ...
KATIE FINNERAN![]()
I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when g...
AL FRANKEN![]()
I knew I wanted to become an actor when I was 7 years old. My dad was working with Alfred Hitchcock,...
LAURA DERN I think I was 13 when we had the talk. My dad is in law enforcement and I know I'm not going to use,...
KYLE MONAHAN![]()
I could never have pictured myself writing a book when I was 25 years old. My mom was an English tea...
TONY DUNGY I don't remember ever not singing. My mother loved music, and she taught me songs, country music...
FLORENCE HENDERSON![]()
My dad does tons of voiceovers; he was Duke in 'G.I. Joe' and 'Transformers' and Han...
ASHLEY BELL![]()
The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' - I was five. And I think the second on...
KATEE SACKHOFF![]()
Before I was born, my mom and my dad, they used to rescue dogs, so at one point, they had 13 dogs. A...
MAISIE WILLIAMS While I was singing in the car, I thought to myself, there needed to be a female children's singer/s...
KRISTA EYLER I was always around volleyball since I was very young because my sister played in grade school and m...
JAY MERGENTHALER![]()
My dad made these dough balls and covered them up with a cloth in front of a gas fire, which was stu...
PAUL HOLLYWOOD I wanted to do 'Oh Shenandoah' because that's the town I was born in - as a tribute to m...
CHARLIE HADEN My dad probably gave me the best advice growing up. I think it's really just keeping your cool i...
CASSIE STEELE![]()
I've looked at pictures that my mom has of me, from when I was four years old at the turntable. ...
DR. DRE I don't think I've ever forced a fumble before. I always played offense my whole life -- a little de...
DESMOND CLARK The first time I ever played 11-man football was when I came to college. It was the first I'd ever s...
CHAD GREENWAY I used to work at this store called Music Plus in San Clemente, California, when I was growing up, a...
JORGE GARCIA![]()
I think they're awesome. I played in Monterrey and it was one of the best crowds I've ever had.
AVRIL LAVIGNE![]()
I'm not a religious person. My mom was of Jewish blood and my dad was Protestant.
DANIEL RADCLIFFE![]()
Not being a natural songwriter... for me the appreciation of a great song and the writers came early...
BONNIE RAITT The first thing I learned was the 'St Louis Blues' when I was eight. Both my grandmothers, m...
JOOLS HOLLAND![]()
My dad was a copywriter on Madison Avenue at the same time as the TV show 'Mad Men' is set. ...
PETER HELLER That was my best time in baseball there. He's the best ever.
ERIC GAGNE If it wasn't for Kenny Rogers, I don't think I would be in country music. He was that guy wh...
DARIUS RUCKER
CHRIS ISAAK Just being out there with my dad, that was the best time growing up.
BRYAN HARSIN When I was five years old, my parents gave me a drum set for Christmas. My mom played the piano, and...
GARRY MARSHALL I like country music. I'm not going to lie. I'm from the South, and I grew up on it. My dad ...
KIM DICKENS
Tango was very popular in Panama at the time when I was growing up. In the Fifties in Panama, the ra... RUBEN BLADES
Growing up, I remember thinking country music was all honky-tonks and beer and trucks - Britney Spea... KELSEA BALLERINI
My dad took me to all the best rock and punk shows when I was growing up and music has always been a... WINONA RYDER My mom was into Kwanzaa when I was growing up. We used to come to the SHAPE Center all the time. Kwa...
ANGELA LINDSEY I was an all-sport athlete growing up. My dad, I think, hoped I would go to college on a scholarship...
T. J. PERKINS I was essentially raised on blues music. My dad was a blues musician around Dublin when I was a baby...
HOZIER Both of my parents were super music lovers when I was growing up - they had a massive record and tap...
MADI DIAZ
My mom and dad got divorced when I was very young, and growing up in a family where the head of the ... DAVE MUSTAINE My dad was a blues musician around Dublin when I was a baby, so the only music I would listen to gro...
HOZIER I was a big fan of Aaliyah's. Growing up, my mom was a big fan of her music. When I grew to have...
ALEXANDRA SHIPP My dad is a huge folk music fan, so growing up, there were always records playing in my house. Carol...
JAKE EPSTEIN My family's just really into the sport. My sister played, my mom played and my dad played baseball. ...
LAUREN GIBSON I think my love of music comes from my dad. I was born with an ear for music, like him, and started ...
BLAKE MICHAEL
There was always a piano in the house when I was growing up - my dad played, and I thought it was co... LAURA MVULA
Going to the Academy Awards is something I remember since I was six, when I went with my mom for the... LAURA DERN My mother told me when I was a toddler and in the crib that they would have music playing, and the t...
ROBBIE ROBERTSON
My dad left when I was 3 1/2, and he left my mom and I. DAVID CASSIDY
It was so weird that I would end up directing 'The Greatest Game Ever Played,' because, y... BILL PAXTON My mom was very strict when I was growing up. I could not talk to boys until I was 18. I had to stud...
COCO LEE
It was a free-for-all with music when I was growing up. My mother was a huge music fanatic so I was ... TIG NOTARO My mom was a folk singer and Celtic harpist. My dad was in a barbershop quartet and my great grandma...
SKYLAR GREY Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad wor...
SAM BARRY
My mom was Sicilian, my dad was Sicilian. Mom was a great cook, but all the women were. CHAZZ PALMINTERI My dad is a lawyer and my mom is an artist. So growing up was exactly what it sounds like - strict h...
TY SEGALL I grew up with the Highwaymen, which was Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristo...
CHRISTIAN KANE
When I was growing up, my mother was always a friend to my siblings and me (in addition to being all... MARLO THOMAS
I think when I was about 12 or 13, my dad started taking me out to the local golf course, and that&#... JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE There was nothing more I wanted to do than to see my dad react well to my music. I still do. I send ...
DAN REYNOLDS
When I was growing up we didn't have a massive house and there were five women running around, so my... LOUIS TOMLINSON
I like her music. I think it's good. And well, I think she's pretty ... even though she's older than... ERIC CLAPTON
When I was growing up, I was the most pretentious person I have ever met. I only read obscure books ... MOBY I would think, to me, growing up in the south, growing up with all the gospel music, singing in the ...
JACKIE DESHANNON
When I was younger, I had a perm, and it was really big. My mom was a hairdresser, so even my dad ha... HEIDI KLUM When I was growing up, kids wouldn't come out to my place because I was too far out in the country.
DAVE BLACK
When I was 7, my dad asked his friend to teach me. I played my first tournament competition when I w... YANI TSENG
When I was 15, my mom and I packed everything up and moved to Nashville so I could pursue my dream i... KELSEA BALLERINI
It's so funny because my mom is Thai and my dad is this big American guy - and our food tastes w... CHRISSY TEIGEN It's quite interesting that in my growing up I had several influences. We had gospel music on ca...
LIONEL RICHIE He played his best game ever. I think he was just exhausted at that point and when he started to mis...
GEORGE FRANCK When I was a kid growing up, my dad being a football coach, he asked the same question of all the as...
CHUCK PAGANO My mom is a therapist, and my dad has a doctorate in psychology, and growing up, I felt 'very un...
RACHEL PLATTEN
Oh, I think country has changed tremendously. I think country has totally changed. Country music whe... JOHN MELLENCAMP I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all cam...
LAURA BELL BUNDY
Our last jam session was this past Christmas. Dad played his harmonica, mom sang in English and Ital... TONY VISCONTI My mom was a dancer, my dad's a singer and I've always had that kind of music in my life.
ELVIS STOJKO
When I was growing up, Dr. Seuss was really my favorite. There was something about the lyrical natur... TIM BURTON
I think one of my very favorite films of all time was with Peter Sellers when he played Chauncey, th... BLYTHE DANNER
The most ironic thing is my grandfather has his masters in music composition; he was a jazz composer... TRAVIS SCOTT The first seven years of my life, me, my mom and dad and my four older siblings lived in a suburb of...
ERIK HASSLE There was a modeling agency in my little town where I got my start, but the opportunity came to work...
JULIA VOTH I'm a first - I was the first person in my family born in the United States. My mom is from Croa...
OTTESSA MOSHFEGH My dad being a DJ, I heard all the hits, no matter what. My mom always had on the radio because my d...
CHAD CHANNING
Mum and dad were very much friends, and up to life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was gro... KATE WINSLET My dad was so much fun growing up.
ABBY ELLIOTT Growing up, you always want to hang with your dad - go fishing or whatever. But my dad was always wo...
VICTOR OLADIPO I loved theatre and film when I was growing up in Harpenden, Hertfordshire. My mum's a reflexolo...
LAURA HADDOCK
But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24. RACHAEL LEIGH COOK
There was always music in our home. My mom and my dad loved music. I remember when we were kids we w... QUEEN LATIFAH
When I was a kid, I played basketball religiously. I begged my mom to get me voice lessons because I... JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE I listened to a battery radio, old country and pop stuff. Because I was singing all the time, my dad...
GLEN CAMPBELL
I bugged my mom and dad to 'get me inside the television set' when I was about four years ol... BILL MUMY
When I was growing up, my parents were almost involved in various volunteer things. My dad was head ... BILL GATES
My dad is a civil engineer, and my mom is a stay-at-home mom. The fact that my parents weren't r... LORDE My dad was an amazing father. He was very loving and supportive. He was the best dad you could ever ...
KRISTIN HAWKINS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES I think he was always there for us. If you ever wanted support, he was there to give you the support...
GARY BELL When I was coming up, I practiced all the time because I thought if I didn't I couldn't do my best.
HERBIE HANCOCK When I was growing up, my dad was away a lot. He did a lot of work in crisis zones, places like Ugan...
JOE ALWYN My father had to go back to Iran to take care of his father when I was 13 and was detained for six y...
DARA KHOSROWSHAHI
I grew up listening to 1980s country music, mostly. Early '90s. That time period was my favorite... BLAKE SHELTON
When I was growing up, there were two things that were unpopular in my house. One was me, and the ot... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN My two favorite musicals growing up in were 'Annie' and 'Sweeney Todd,' and my best ...
KATIE FINNERAN
I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when g... AL FRANKEN
I knew I wanted to become an actor when I was 7 years old. My dad was working with Alfred Hitchcock,... LAURA DERN I think I was 13 when we had the talk. My dad is in law enforcement and I know I'm not going to use,...
KYLE MONAHAN
I could never have pictured myself writing a book when I was 25 years old. My mom was an English tea... TONY DUNGY I don't remember ever not singing. My mother loved music, and she taught me songs, country music...
FLORENCE HENDERSON
My dad does tons of voiceovers; he was Duke in 'G.I. Joe' and 'Transformers' and Han... ASHLEY BELL
The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' - I was five. And I think the second on... KATEE SACKHOFF
Before I was born, my mom and my dad, they used to rescue dogs, so at one point, they had 13 dogs. A... MAISIE WILLIAMS While I was singing in the car, I thought to myself, there needed to be a female children's singer/s...
KRISTA EYLER I was always around volleyball since I was very young because my sister played in grade school and m...
JAY MERGENTHALER
My dad made these dough balls and covered them up with a cloth in front of a gas fire, which was stu... PAUL HOLLYWOOD I wanted to do 'Oh Shenandoah' because that's the town I was born in - as a tribute to m...
CHARLIE HADEN My dad probably gave me the best advice growing up. I think it's really just keeping your cool i...
CASSIE STEELE
I've looked at pictures that my mom has of me, from when I was four years old at the turntable. ... DR. DRE I don't think I've ever forced a fumble before. I always played offense my whole life -- a little de...
DESMOND CLARK The first time I ever played 11-man football was when I came to college. It was the first I'd ever s...
CHAD GREENWAY I used to work at this store called Music Plus in San Clemente, California, when I was growing up, a...
JORGE GARCIA
I think they're awesome. I played in Monterrey and it was one of the best crowds I've ever had. AVRIL LAVIGNE
I'm not a religious person. My mom was of Jewish blood and my dad was Protestant. DANIEL RADCLIFFE
Not being a natural songwriter... for me the appreciation of a great song and the writers came early... BONNIE RAITT The first thing I learned was the 'St Louis Blues' when I was eight. Both my grandmothers, m...
JOOLS HOLLAND
My dad was a copywriter on Madison Avenue at the same time as the TV show 'Mad Men' is set. ... PETER HELLER That was my best time in baseball there. He's the best ever.
ERIC GAGNE If it wasn't for Kenny Rogers, I don't think I would be in country music. He was that guy wh...
DARIUS RUCKER
But to mean it when I say that I want my life to count for His glory is to drive a stake through the... 
Our heartbeat is to see the campuses of this nation awaken to God. 
The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others th... 
We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and ou... 