Quotes About Beginnings

I've met people at the top of companies like Accenture who started off in McDonald's.

The first rhymes I wrote, I was 9. It was Kool Moe Dee-style.

Ricky and I met aged 22 at University College London.

I told my parents I wanted an agent, and they decided to let me have a go at it. Then I started working right away. I was 12.

I started with Sam Cooke when I was 6 or 7 years old.

I was probably six years old when I first sang before an audience.

I can't remember what my first script was.

The first album I ever owned was 'A Star is Born.'

The first guitar I ever owned was a Kay SG copy. That cost like $35. Man, that was a terrible guitar.

When I was 13, I used to go to a jazz club. The owner of the club became my first business manager. She was very gutsy and had a lot of friends, one of whom happened to be the head of jazz at Columbia at the time. That's how it all began.

The first time I did a show, I definitely didn't get any money. My friend just let me do this show. I was so nervous: my mic didn't work, and I was like, 'Urgh.' It was terrible. It was a dingy club off of the highway, but all these people came. It was packed out.

My first artistic love was drawing and painting.

When I get my hands on painting materials I don't give a damn about other people's painting... every generation must start again afresh.

The first picture of me that I know of was me in the crib wearing a pair of cowboy boots.

My first pair of shoes my mom bought me. I was born in 1985 and my mom is the biggest North Carolina/Michael Jordan fan there is, so when those first Jordan's came out those were my first shoes ever. I don't remember but I guess it started from there.

Crystal Palace were my first club and one I hold dear to my heart.

I got started acting by going to auditions that my mom found in the entertainment section of our local news paper. Then, I got a manager and started going out on more auditions.

When I was nine, I was passing by a drum class and saw them playing and I was moved. That's why I started making music.

from those humble beginnings we learned to see faces in the clouds and portents in the stars, to see agency in randomness, because natural selection favors the paranoid.

My mom came from such humble beginnings and especially my dad as well. He didn't go to university.

I always drank chocolate milk growing up and I remember my grandmother would always have it when I would visit her in the Dominican Republic - that's when it all started.

I didn't actually begin photographing, or even visit New York, for the first time until I was 26.

The first time I ever actually had a line was on 'A Different World', my best friend Cree Summer's show. I was in L.A. visiting her, and she said, 'Hey, there's a walk-on part, why don't you audition for it?'

Long before my days at ESPN, the 'Philadelphia Inquirer,' or the 'New York Daily News' before that, I was a student at Thomas A. Edison Vocational and Technical High.