Quotes About Youth

As a young pianist in Hollywood, I began orchestrating for others, and I just felt really comfortable doing that.

I was for a minor amount of time but I was probably a better pianist at 15 than I am now.

When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs.

I started playing piano when I was around four; that's my first passion.

I used to play the piano when I was younger, and I loved Alicia Keys. I wanted to be Alicia Keys; she was such an idol to me.

When you're a child, you take things for granted. For instance, my mum didn't have a lot of money, but I went to piano, ballet and gymnastics lessons, and tae kwon do.

I've always written songs. I'd come home from school and play piano for hours on end, just banging around.

George Winston piano albums have been my go-to since junior high.

A couple of my friends had guitars, and I remember messing with them, but I was often intimidated by it. I think I sat down at a piano once when I was really young, but that was it.

I learned to read music when I was 10 and did piano and took lessons.

Everyone at school knew I wanted to be a singer. I'd always be banging on the piano playing my new song. The teacher would gather us round, and the whole class would listen.

I was a lifeguard, camp counselor, the president of the YMCA Leaders Corps. I also took piano lessons. I was a dancer.

I play the sax, piano, guitar, bass... I started as a kid with piano lessons.

If you're small and can speak clearly and you're a cute kid, that's the craft, really. The whole child actor thing can be dangerous sometimes. Other kids were taking piano lessons; I did ballet and acting.

When I was 12, I wrote a list of things to do before I died. 'Own a Picasso' was one of those things.

Pablo Picasso first entered my consciousness when I was a boy of about eight years old.

In my junior high and high school days, I would just pick up a mower and go mow the neighbor's grass and make an extra 30 bucks.

I used to run home from school, pick up my guitar, and lock myself in my room and play.

When you become famous at 19, it does a number in your head, so you find romance in the mundane - isn't it so great that a guy would pick me up at my house and take me to a restaurant?

When I'd get out of school in the afternoon, I would go to the golf course, and I just picked the game up. And when I was 13 years old, I could shoot 70 - even-par 71, one over par and then something like that. I just took a liking to the game.

I started playing when I was about 16, and I got picked for the England youth team when I was 17 because I was doing quite well. It's all spiralled from there.

From Under 15s to Under 19s, I was concentrating playing for England, it was close to me, I could just go to St George's Park, it was nice. Going back to school when you've just played for England, it was amazing, you're one of the best players in the country, that's why you're getting picked.

When I was younger I started dancing. I picked it up off a couple of mates who were body-popping.

I was playing drums in church when I was six. Then I picked up the piano when I was 11 or 12.