Tilda Swinton Quote

The night I was recognized for 'Daughters' at the Grammys was the night this record started....
JOHN MAYER

Oddly, when I started to make the record, I wasn't aware I was making a record. I just was sort ...
PAUL WESTERBERG

When I was in my 20s, I thought that being known for 'Swimming Pool' was kind of a burden. L...
LUDIVINE SAGNIER

When I lost my record deal, and my phone wasn't ringing, I realized that I had to reassess who V...
VESTA WILLIAMS

For 'Regulate,' I was at home, and I came up with it. I was listening to Michael McDonald...
WARREN G

I had just started ninth grade when I got my acne. And I had braces. I wouldn't look people in t...
KENDALL JENNER

I still love records, and I've been fortunate that my parents bought me a record player so I did...
GABRIELLE APLIN

When I wrote 'Marvin Gaye,' my whole intention was to make a record that people would put on...
CHARLIE PUTH

I was born 'Harmony,' and it was weird because when I was a little kid, I was picked on so m...
HARMONY KORINE

What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw!
DEYTH BANGER

The first record I bought was a Carl Perkins record, because I saw him at The Festival at Sandpoint,...
JOSH HOMME

I bought Justin Bieber's house... He had, like, this nook under the stairs which I didn't ne...
KHLOE KARDASHIAN

My brother and I had a real love-hate relationship with my success. There was some bitterness there ...
JIMMY CHAMBERLIN

It sounds odd, but I was a singer and started writing songs, and I didn't have anything in mind....
BILL MEDLEY

I have a younger brother and sister who actually play in my band, and we were always into Disney mus...
LAURA MVULA

I would have to say that my very first encounter with the arts was when my mother bought me my first...
SONDRA RADVANOVSKY

You know, in the days when I started, if you had Chet Atkins' name on your record as a producer ...
WAYLON JENNINGS

All I ever wanted to do was get a great job on a TV show. When I read 'Modern Family' and st...
ERIC STONESTREET

I've had such a hard time with dyslexia my whole life. When I was a child, I didn't learn to...
CHARLOTTE MCKINNEY

There was this project I really wanted before 'Glee' and I didn't get cast - I went in a...
DIANNA AGRON

When I first started acting I was about nine years old. I had never been to audition in my life and ...
ALEXANDER LUDWIG

When I was 13 I asked my mother if it was possible for this to end - I'd had enough of it. And t...
LINDA BLAIR

When I was up in New York, the first record my parents bought me was the Terror Squad record with &#...
POST MALONE

When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer; he ...
FRANK GEHRY

My father was my first inspiration. He had an incredible stereo and a turntable, and I was told not ...
GRANDMASTER FLASH

When I started working on my own music, I didn't have the chance to record in a big music studio...
AGNES OBEL

Barbie ruined my life! It's a really bad image for women. For a long time I thought I was deform...
RITA RUDNER

When I was 15, I changed my name legally. I think it was largely due to my struggle about being gay....
PORTIA DE ROSSI

When I came out of service, the first couple of releases didn't really hit so I just took a litt...
WILLIAM BELL

When I was 13, I would come visit my aunt and uncle in New York. I decided I wanted to live with the...
PRIYANKA CHOPRA

I sang with a voice that was natural, and I liked the way I produced that sound. I thought of my oth...
DANIELLE DE NIESE

I was signed to a record label when I was younger. I was in a group, and I just wasn't - persona...
TIKA SUMPTER

I DJ'd for years. I DJ'd in high school, and I think my parents thought it was a passing thi...
KASKADE

When I was younger, I didn't have the finer things in life. It was around me - the cars, the jew...
LARENZ TATE

I was too shy, I think, to sing publicly. It takes a particular kind of person. And when I was young...
HUGH LAURIE

'Die a Happy Man' was one of those that, when I wrote it and sent it to my label, their resp...
THOMAS RHETT

I don't sing now, because I had polio when I was 15, bulbar polio. This was when the epidemic wa...
CHARLIE HADEN

I wanted to play drums, and I got a set when I was 14 and just started to play in the house, to the ...
TIPPER GORE

I started wearing wigs when I was younger and had a thyroid disease that made my hair fall out. It w...
ANGELA ROBINSON

I didn't think anyone was going to buy 'Do You Really Wanna Hurt Me?' It was really pers...
BOY GEORGE

'Jack & Diane' was originally about race. I was playing nightclubs, and I was seeing new...
JOHN MELLENCAMP

I was doing a show at the Comedy Store which Eddie Izzard saw, and we chatted for a bit afterwards. ...
TREVOR NOAH

When I was a kid. I started writing when I was 13. I got my first electric guitar when I was 13, but...
JEFF BUCKLEY

As every teenage girl, I was absolutely obsessed with The Beatles, and the first record I bought was...
TWIGGY

The artist that had the biggest impact on me was Michael Jackson. He was my Elvis and Beatles. When ...
MICHAEL BUBLE

My dad was pretty strict. We didn't even get to watch any of his movies until I was, like, 17 ye...
DAMON WAYANS, JR.

I lived with my auntie and my cousin when I was growing up, and they always wore black, and I though...
ROMY MADLEY CROFT

I started writing when I was 13. I got my first electric guitar when I was 13, but I'd always be...
JEFF BUCKLEY

I got it into my head that I had somewhat neglected the guitar, and then I did a record called '...
TODD RUNDGREN

When I started performing, there was no Internet; I didn't really have anything to copy. I kind ...
DITA VON TEESE

I was this very precocious kid with a big personality. When my mother saw that modelling was somethi...
CARMEN EJOGO

'Wonder Showzen' is one of my favorite shows of all time. When I first saw it, I thought it ...
ERIC ANDRE

Before I was married, I didn't consider my failure to manage even basic hand tools a feminist in...
AYELET WALDMAN

Single Record of the Year and New Vocalist were such a blessing to see, but when I saw that I was up...
THOMAS RHETT

Of course when I started, it's not because I was such a brilliant actress. I didn't know I w...
CAROLE BOUQUET

When I was little... I didn't relate to princesses. I saw Maleficent, and I just thought she was...
ANGELINA JOLIE

I started writing music when I was around twelve. My current record company saw a video of me perfor...
LORDE

I always thought, 'Will I go into the business, or will I not go into the business?' But whe...
JARED KUSHNER

When I came into the music, I was forced to be a CEO. I was forced to be an entrepreneur; I was forc...
JAY-Z

My career was one of just taking it step by step. I didn't know how I was gonna fare on the prof...
TOM WATSON

I had wanted to be a movie star and had thought I would be a movie star since I was very little. It ...
BROOKE ADAMS

I started off when I was seven years old doing musicals. I was in 'Les Miserables' and '...
ALICIA VIKANDER

I didn't have a business degree. I didn't have experience to work in somebody else's off...
HAMDI ULUKAYA

My father was a jazz tenor sax player. He played in a lot of big bands. So I had that sound around m...
MESHELL NDEGEOCELLO

When I wrote my first book, 'The Tennis Party', my overriding concern was that I didn't ...
SOPHIE KINSELLA

My father earned every penny he had, and I would have loved to have bought him a Rolls-Royce because...
BRUCE FORSYTH

I didn't always want to act. My passion was writing, and it still is one of my primary passions ...
BRYCE DALLAS HOWARD

I got the script for 'Real Steel.' I started reading and saw that it was about robot boxing,...
EVANGELINE LILLY

I got into Dio when I was still quite young. I remember seeing the video for 'Rainbow In The Dar...
COREY TAYLOR

I have to say that when I first started singing, I didn't think it was a very noble profession. ...
LESLEY GORE

I'm so happy in the projects that I'm able to make, to be involved in projects like this. Th...
JENNIFER CONNELLY

When I was a freshman, I didn't have that much time for extra-curriculars, so I didn't do an...
SHANLEY CASWELL

I was an artist, I was executive producer on my first album, so I've always had to manage both. ...
JAY-Z

I was a crazy Pee-wee Herman fan when I was in my early teens. Before he had the kids' TV show, ...
DALLAS ROBERTS

Gromit was the name of a cat. When I started modeling the cat I just didn't feel it was quite ri...
NICK PARK

When I first came to New York I was a dancer, and a French record label offered me a recording contr...
MADONNA CICCONE

When I was in Japan with my girlfriend Jessica, she would have had acupuncture every day if she coul...
JENSON BUTTON

I was freaking out when Brooks & Dunn were breaking up. I thought 'We play a ton of rodeos, ...
RONNIE DUNN

Sometimes when I'm being photographed, I hear the voice of this photographer who told me when I ...
BRAD GORESKI

I wish I could say I had this master plan for a career, but I always thought acting was something I&...
DEAN JONES

Before my marriage, I was really wild, and I was very open about it. My wife knows about it. From th...
RAM KAPOOR

In Mudcrutch we all wrote songs, and when it got to the focus on Tom and the Heartbreakers, I kept w...
BENMONT TENCH

The worst moment was when I was performing and I was about to sing, but I choked. I had a tickle in ...
CHRIS BROWN

I saw women's boxing on television for the first time when I was 18, and that's when I wante...
LAILA ALI

When I was 13, I started writing songs, and it fell into my lap all of a sudden. I wrote poems and j...
KELSEA BALLERINI

I'd rather be known for my accomplishments, and for things that I really do take pride in, rathe...
MARA WILSON

I thought my Beatles LPs sounded pretty good on a record player, but that was before I had heard a C...
ALASTAIR WOOD

When my family fell apart, it was such a troubled part of my life... I think I could understand what...
WALTER DEAN MYERS

Implants were something I thought I wanted when I was younger, and now I don't. It was hard bein...
HEATHER MORRIS

I've had teammates I didn't get along with, who hasn't? I've never had a teammate ca...
CURT SCHILLING

Oh, my, yes. I was raised in this Southern culture where if a guy was sarcastic, that just meant he ...
GINNIFER GOODWIN

There was a time when my whole life was in chaos, really, and I didn't help myself sort it out. ...
BILLY IDOL

When I saw 'Legally Blonde' on Broadway, I rang my agent and said 'I want to be seen for...
SHERIDAN SMITH

I just wanted to make a record that wasn't escapism. Like, I didn't want to write another re...
DAN DEACON

At first, I didn't know what an actor was. I thought it was an acrobat. I saw acrobats at the ci...
FINN JONES

My father was an aspiring country singer and songwriter. He just didn't get that off that ground...
RONNIE DUNN

We didn't have movies in this little mining town. When I was 12 my mom took me to New York and I...
MARGOT KIDDER

I really didn't get obsessed with Bowie until my freshman year in high school. I remember listen...
SCOTT WEILAND

When I first sat down with my oncologist the day before Thanksgiving, and she told me I would need 8...
AMY ROBACH

I knew absolutely nothing about recording. I had this four-track recorder, and I'd plug my elect...
BILL CALLAHAN

My whole relationship with Bowie started when I was 13, and I bought a copy of 'Aladdin Sane' when I didn't have a record player. I had this record for a year before I could play it, and it was the image - not the sound - that I was attracted to. I just saw this image and thought he was my cousin.

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