Quotes About Upbringing

I'm not a musician, I can't read music, but I came from a family of music fans. Not mad music fans, but people who like music. Both of my parents can play the piano. They were very good dancers, which I am not.

Well, I was a real late-comer to listen to music, actually, because my parents - first of all, my parents weren't big music fans. They didn't listen to music. We didn't really listen to stuff in the house.

The music scene in Michigan is really folky and bluegrass, but my parents played a lot of disco. They really liked to dance.

I come from a musical kind of family.

I grew up in a very musical family, but music was not encouraged as a career. It was a hobby.

I grew up in a musical atmosphere at home.

My biggest musical influences are probably my parents.

I come from a place where there's a lot of musical families.

The most consistent musical experience I had growing up was church music.

I love musicals. I grew up on musicals.

I love musicals, and I grew up with them, but the first time I thought I could really do this was when I saw 'In the Heights.'

I grew up on musicals, and I love them so much.

Our parents were musicians.

You must remember I grew up around music. Three of my family were musicians.

Both of my parents were musicians.

I started playing when I was 5. I'm from a family of musicians.

I grew up around a lot of church musicians.

My father and mother are Muslims. But from the moment I started talking, I decided I was a Christian. They let me.

I grew up in a church. My mom is a minister so she would make us go to every possible church she could muster.

Well, it's hard for me to call anybody my 'friend' because when I say 'friend,' like, I'm from the South and friends have grown up with you, went to school with you, stuff like that.

A part of me wants to sort of try and sound cool and feed this myth that I'm some sort of glamorous lothario, but I was raised by women - my mother and her mother and my aunts - and as a result, most of my friends have always been women.

I was influenced by my mother to a great extent and I came to know about Hindu mythology from her.

I certainly didn't have a nanny.

I had a nanny growing up in Morocco, and my parents encouraged me to put myself in her shoes sometimes.