Quotes About Youth

I was pretty young when I decided I wanted to, well, more so be a singer. I started singing in church in my hometown, East Orange, New Jersey. I knew when I was about five or six that I wanted to be a performer.

My mom wanted to be a country singer, too, so country was always being played. And my girlfriends and I used to go to concerts, like Brad Paisley, in middle school and high school.

When I was eight, it was clear I was a very good singer.

Even when I was a kid, I always sort of identified myself with Keith Richards and Slash more than the singers of the bands.

There are so many young singers I meet from Delhi, and I am sure they will attain heights some day. They all are very good, and I am very proud of them.

I think that freshness and that innocence is something that is missing from a lot of female singers. I'm certainly not denying that I'm young, but I'm not fluff.

Obviously there are a lot of 12-year-olds over in America who are incredible singers.

Lots of young singers come to me and ask, 'May I sing to you?' I say, 'Yes, you can sing to me as long as you don't mind what I tell you, because I'm not going to flatter you. I'm going to tell you what I think.' Oh, yes, they're quite happy about that, until they hear it.

I had this voice when I was in high school, except nobody thought much of it then. I developed it by imitating singers I admired - Alison Moyet, Boy George, later on Nina Simone.

When I was younger I was interested in fame. Lots of kids want to be actors and singers and stuff and it's fun to be recognized and fun to have pictures taken of you.

Well, the first band was at nine, and I was on the road when I was 12 with the Sullivan Family Gospel Singers.

I went out on the road when I was 12 years old, playing with the Sullivan Family Gospel Singers. That was the summer of 1972. We played Pentecostal churches, camp meetings, George Wallace campaign rallies and bluegrass festivals. As a kid, I had grown up watching quartets that were very entertaining.

I started out when I was about 12, playing drums. I started singing when I was about 15.

There will always be some kid who's the new Kurt Cobain writing great lyrics and singing from his soul. The problem is they're not marketing that anymore or putting it out there.

I didn't start singing until I was 16. I was afraid to sing in front of people.

I'd rather be dead than singing 'Satisfaction' when I'm forty-five.

I really enjoy singing and I really enjoy acting, but singing I've been doing since I was really young.

In high school I dabbed in drag. I used to compete in singing competitions, like at the Christian college by my house.

I went to a Saturday school where you would do an hour of dancing, an hour of acting, and an hour of singing. I was loud and attention-seeking enough that they put me on their agency on the side.

When kids were busy playing at the age of 11, I was singing for the heroine of 'Shastra.'

Before 'Music and Lyrics,' I was just doing high school plays and singing in my church choir and my school choir.

I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs.

I grew up listening to the Police, I grew up performing in bars, singing Police songs.

I was more of a dancing kid than a singing kid. I mean, I sang in school choirs and I sang in school musicals, but I was much more interested in dancing than singing.