Quotes About Childhood

Since I was a little child, my nose - I think it's too big.

John Cusack and I have been friends since childhood, and the fact that we're in so many films together is, no pun intended, serendipitous.

The movies are something that I've been obsessed with, and I've subscribed to movie magazines all my life, since I was a child.

I have been exposed to the Afghan culture since childhood.

I have been playing games since I was about 6, and they've always been a big hobby of mine.

As a kid we would eat moussaka with mash. We had a real fusion of two cultures that no-one has dared to fuse since.

When I was a little kid, I used to get in trouble a lot for lying. Being raised religious, I believed that lying was sinful, so I felt guilty.

I knew I wanted to sing when I was a very small boy. When I was probably 4 years old. My mother played a guitar and I would sit with her and she would sing and I learned to sing along with her.

I've always known that I was born to sing, ever since I was a child.

I was born into a household where my aunt, grandmother and mother lived their music. They all sang harmony, and by the time I was 2, I could sing 'Row, Row, Row Your Boat' in three-part harmony.

Mum decided that I could sing a bit, so she put me in a choir, which I hated, and it was just a nightmare. I was a rebellious sort of choirboy.

My dad says I could sing before I could talk, if that's possible. I was always humming and things like that.

When I first saw Destiny's Child, I was in the fifth grade, and it made me want to sing and make music, and there would be these freestyles on the radio for what seemed like hours; it was just so cool to me.

I discovered at the age of five that I could sing, and I realised people liked it. The sound that came out made people happy, so I kept doing it.

I was born in Singapore, but I left at four so memories are hazy.

I used to put all my doll babies on my bed with their hands up and I would do full shows for them. I'd even do the screaming and clapping. I was bugging to be a singer.

Hendrix was the first person I had come across who seemed completely free, and when you're nine or 10, your life is entirely dominated by adults. So he represented this thing that I wanted to be. Hendrix was the first person who made me think it might be good to be a singer and a guitarist - before that I wanted to be a footballer.

I was a kid from Oklahoma who never wanted to be a singer, but was told I could sing. And things snowballed.

I wanted to be an opera singer since I was a very little girl.

When I was a kid, I would impersonate anything that I would hear. It's - actually, I attribute that more to why I actually was able to become a musician and a singer.

When I was a little girl, I always dreamed of being a country music singer, but I never dreamed I'd be a member of the Grand Ole Opry.

I'm very comfortable as a singer. In fact, I think it's more - I identified my self-esteem, my self more in those ways when I was growing up. I really - it was kind of my calling card as a kid.

My mother was the first singer I had contact with. She sang constantly to us around the house, in church.

When I was a child, the idea of coming to Mumbai and becoming a singer was a far-fetched one.