“I grew up in an eclectic house where people were listening to all types of different music. I also think being educated, eloquent and knowing how to talk for yourself in the industry makes you go a long way.” PeopleThinkingWayLongDifferentHouseKnowingListeningGrewTypeIndustryGrew UpEducatedLong WayEloquentEclecticDifferent Music Author:Tinie Tempah
“I don't relate to what's left of the music business. There doesn't seem to be any point to it anymore. The business that I grew up in and loved, we made records a different way - there were record companies, there were stores where you could buy albums.” WayMadeDifferentSeemsLeftCompanyRecordsGrewGrew UpAlbumsStoresRelateDifferent WaysMusic BusinessRecord Companies Author:Don McLean
“I grew up in East Flatbush in Brooklyn which was an intense neighbourhood filled with different West Indian cultures.” DifferentCultureGrewGrew UpFilledWestEastIntenseIndianBrooklynIndian CultureNeighbourhoods Author:Michael K. Williams
“I'm used to always being different, in any context. People always want to know how I grew up, so I just say I grew up Muslim. That's the truth. Two Muslim girls can write me two extremely different letters - and they do. Some are very supportive, and some question what I do.” PeopleKnowsWantWritingTwoDifferentUsedGirlKnow HowGrewGrew UpLettersSupportiveBeing Different Author:Noureen DeWulf
“When I grew up, there were no teletypewriters or video calls, so I primarily interpreted phone calls. At that time, where I lived, it wasn't embarrassing to have Deaf parents; it was cool to be able to speak a different language than everyone else.” DifferentAbleSpeakLanguageParentGrewGrew UpPhonesVideoEmbarrassingDeafPhone CallsDifferent Languages Author:Jack Jason
“I'm not a New Yorker. I grew up in Detroit. A lot of people think it's one big city but they're completely different.” PeopleThinkingDifferentBigsCitiesGrewGrew UpNew YorkersDetroitBig Cities Author:Mike Binder
“A significant event for me was learning Hank Williams, reconnecting with his music's simplicity, which inspired me to inhabit the same territory. It's different, because I grew up on Led Zeppelin, The Stooges and punk, so in that sense I'm mutating country and folk more than a few degrees.” DifferentCountryEventsGrewDegreesGrew UpInspiredSimplicityFolksSignificantTerritoryPunkZeppelinsStoogesReconnectingHank WilliamsSignificant Events Author:Stone Gossard
“It came from my mother. She was a singer, and literally every day of the week she sang at a different club in a different genre of music: country, R&B clubs, jazz clubs, church on Sunday morning where she was the music director, pop hits, soft rock. I grew up listening to all this music, so it was never one thing for me.” DifferentCountryMotherChurchMorningOne ThingWeekRocksListeningGrewDirectorsGrew UpJazzClubsPopsSingersGenreSundaySunday MorningDifferent GenresDays Of The WeekGenres Of MusicChurch On SundayDifferent Genres Of Music Author:Robert Glasper
“I grew up in a lot of different places, so I pick up accents pretty quickly.” DifferentGrewGrew UpPicksAccentsDifferent Place Author:Ruth Negga
“I grew up poor in crappy situations various crappy situations. What kept me sane was reading and music. I had so many different literary tastes growing up, be it fiction like Stephen King or Piers Anthony or non-fiction like reading Hunter S. Thompson essays or reading the Beats. I was a huge fan of the Beat movement.” DifferentReadingPoorFictionSituationGrowing UpGrowingFansMovementHugeGrewKingsTasteGrew UpBeatsVariousSaneHuntersEssaysNon FictionPiersHunter's Thompson Author:Corey Taylor
“When I grew up, it was a time when women were just supposed to be cute and not have many opinions. My mother and her friends were quite different. They were all the most beautiful women you've ever seen ... and they were very strong women.” DifferentBeautifulMotherStrongOpinionGrewGrew UpSupposed To BeCuteVery StrongStrong WomenBeautiful Women Author:Cher
“I think the big thing for Simple Plan is that we were able to keep the band members, the same five guys, the same lineup from the start. That's not easy. We grew up together. We're friends. We come from the same world. We've always had the same dreams and goals. I think we realized, as the years go by, how precious it is to have that, to build that, to see so many bands break up... it makes us realize how different we are to all that. We're really proud of that.” ThinkingWorldYearsDifferentDreamBigsAbleTogetherGuyEasyGoalRealizingSimpleBreakFivePlansGrewProudBandMembersGrew UpBig ThingsDreams And GoalsBand MembersSimple Plan Author:Chuck Comeau
“All of us who grew up before World War II are immigrants in time, immigrants from an earlier world, living in an age essentially different from anything we knew before.” WorldDifferentWarAgeGrewGrew UpWar Of The WorldsImmigrantsWorld War IiWorld War I Author:Margaret Mead
“I come from a visual background, and I grew up around a lot of hippies and artists. My mom and my brother and I moved around a lot. We basically moved every couple of years, and I went to a lot of different schools. But creativity, for us, was always a way of life. It was never a job. Being an artist was a passion and a way of life.” WayYearsDifferentSchoolJobsArtistPassionCreativityBrotherGrewMomCoupleGrew UpMovedMy MomBackgroundsMy BrotherVisualsHippieBeing An Artist Author:Jared Leto
“I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy. But, I wanted to put a somewhat different spin on it. The whole trope of absolute good versus absolute evil, which was wonderful in the hands of J.R. Tolkien, became cliche and rote in the hands of the many Tolkien imitators that followed.” DifferentWholeHandsWantedEvilReadingFantasyWonderfulGrewGrew UpAbsolutesVersusClicheImitatorTropes Author:George R. R. Martin
“I don't believe in the so-called Latino explosion when it comes to movies. Jennifer Lopez doesn't have an accent. She grew up in New York speaking English, not Spanish. Her success is very important because she represents a different culture, but it doesn't help me.” BelieveImportantDifferentHelpingCultureNew YorkGrewGrew UpDon't BelieveHelp MeAccentsExplosionsLatinoDifferent CulturesJennifer Author:Salma Hayek
“My father was a man of the theater. I grew up in a theater family. As a young man, as a boy, I gypsied around with my siblings and my parents to, like, eight different towns, went to eight different schools. All those things were extremely formative, and I think that's what happens.” ThinkingMenDifferentHappensSchoolYoungFatherParentBoysGrewGrew UpTheaterTownsEightYoung ManSiblingMy SiblingsTheater Family Author:John Lithgow
“I grew up in a normal family. I have sweet parents, who are still married... But my life is so different from how I thought it would be.” StillsDifferentWould BeLife IsParentSweetGrewNormalMarriedGrew UpNormal Family Author:Gwen Stefani
“My politics are just inclined to be empathetic and humanistic. I grew up with so many different kinds of people with different politics, different religion, no religion, no politics, education, no education, and I was infatuated with all of them.” PeopleKindDifferentGrewGrew UpDifferent KindsEmpatheticHumanisticDifferent ReligionsInfatuated Author:Lily Tomlin
“I'm very interested in the way the Internet has changed teenage life. Obviously it's very different from when I grew up, when there weren't even answering machines, much less computers. I was telling my children this the other day, and the little one said, "Did you have electricity, Mom?" and I was like okay, enough, kid.” WayChildrenLittlesSaidDifferentEnoughKidsChangedGrewMomInternetComputerGrew UpOkayMachinesMy ChildrenElectricityTeenageAnswering MachinesTeenage Life Author:Jennifer Egan
“Everybody gets inspired by different things. I grew up wanting to go up the street with a video camera because I liked watching David Letterman yell out of the ninth floor of Rockefeller Center with a megaphone at people on the street. I thought that was a riot.” PeopleDifferentStreetsGrewGrew UpCamerasInspiredVideoDifferent ThingsRiotLettermanVideo CamerasRockefeller Center Author:Tom Green
“My parents had an independent theater company here in Sweden during the 1980s, so I was raised watching my parents create independently, having a lot of fun and just doing what they wanted to do. I think that idea of independence as an artist was something I was always used to. And then I entered the industry from a very commercial perspective, and things were very different then from what I grew up with.” ThinkingIdeasDifferentWantedUsedArtistFunParentCompanyPerspectiveGrewIndustryGrew UpTheaterIndependentIndependenceRaisedSweden Author:Robyn
“Baltimore's often called the most northern Southern town. It has a distinct essence. It's definitely post-industrial, definitely Rust Belt, very working-class. I grew up outside of Washington, and I felt I was moving to a completely different place when I moved 30 miles north out of college.” DifferentMovingFeltClassCollegeGrewGrew UpEssenceTownsMovedMilesPostsSouthernWorking ClassBeltsDifferent PlaceRustBaltimore Author:David Simon
“The piano is just a different animal. It's expensive, it's big, it's heavy, and it doesn't fit in the mix easily. Everyone grew up with a piano in their living room, so rocking out on the piano was accessible - it wasn't an upper-class thing. Now pianos have become very much a piece of furniture.” DifferentBigsAnimalRoomsClassPiecesGrewFitGrew UpHeavyPianoExpensiveFurnitureLiving RoomUpper ClassDifferent AnimalsRocking Out Author:Ben Folds
“I grew up being fascinated by accents and dialects. One of the things that interested me were actors that were doing different characters, or sort of more caricatures.” DifferentCharacterActorsGrewGrew UpFascinatedAccentsCaricaturesDifferent CharactersDialect Author:Sharlto Copley
“I was really lucky to grow up in an extremely diverse neighborhood. I grew up in a city called Southfield, and it's one of the most diverse cities in the country. Just from the different socio-economic statuses and racial and ethnic groups I was around, I was around all different types of music from the beginning.” DifferentCountryGrowsCitiesGrowing UpGroupsEconomicGrewTypeLuckyGrew UpNeighborhoodDiverseEthnic GroupsDifferent Types Of MusicEconomic Status Author:Mike Posner
“Some people have been listening to the Beatles their whole lives; I didn't discover them until I was 18 years old. As a result, I'm still very affected and moved by their music - maybe in a way that's different from someone who grew up around it.” PeopleWayYearsHas BeensStillsDifferentWholeResultsListeningGrewGrew UpMovedWhole LifeAffected Author:Danger Mouse
“I was a very lucky kid, because I grew up affluent Santa Barbara, California. My experience as a child was probably so different from people I met later who grew up in the rural South, where many doors were closed to them.” PeopleChildrenDifferentKidsDoorsGrewMetsLuckyGrew UpSouthCaliforniaSantaAffluentBarbaraSanta Barbara Author:Floyd Norman
“I grew up in different orphanages in Israel, and if they gave me a pair of shoes, a shirt, and pair of pants every year, I was lucky. The rest was handouts, leftover clothes. So I appreciated clothes because I only had one new shirt each year.” IfsYearsDifferentGrewLuckyClothesGrew UpShoesIsraelShirtsPairsPantsAppreciatedPair Of ShoesOrphanageHandouts Author:Elie Tahari
“As a kid, I was fortunate that we grew up near a children's theater, with all different classes and things; so as a kid I took classes there and as I got into high school I did all the community theater stuff. Then I came to college here in New York, going to Marymount Manhattan, and studied acting there. But most of the training I got was from working. Working with really great people.” PeopleChildrenDifferentKidsSchoolStuffCommunityActingClassNew YorkCollegeGrewGrew UpTrainingHigh SchoolTheaterFortunateReally GreatGreat People Author:Andrew Rannells
“My memories of Kabul are vastly different than the way it is when I go there now. My memories are of the final years before everything changed. When I grew up in Kabul, it couldn't be mistaken for Beirut or Tehran, as it was still in a country that's essentially religious and conservative, but it was suprisingly progressive and liberal.” WayYearsStillsDifferentCountryReligiousMemoriesChangedGrewGrew UpFinalsConservativeProgressiveMistakenTehranBeirutKabul Author:Khaled Hosseini
“One of the facets of growing up the way I did, I never had the experience of being solely in the black community. Even my family, my mother is what they call Creole, so she's part French, part black, and grew up in Louisiana. It's a very specific kind of blackness that is different than what is traditionally thought of as the black community and black culture. So, I never felt a part of whatever that was.” WayKindDifferentMotherCultureFeltBlackCommunityGrowing UpGrowingGrewGrew UpMy FamilyBlacknessFacetsLouisianaBlack CommunityBlack CultureCreole Author:Justin Simien
“Well, I mean, the original is certainly the jump-off, it certainly is what it is, you know, I grew up around that era so I watched all those shows. The basic concept is there, it's just a different movie. Totally different actors, different filmmakers, different script, but same concept.” KnowsWellsMeanDifferentShowsActorsGrewGrew UpConceptsOriginalsScriptsErasFilmmaker Author:Antoine Fuqua
“If you are not a New Yorker, when you arrive there for the first time you have the impression you grew up there because you've seen it in so many films. It's been filmed from every single angle and by so many different filmmakers that you know the streets, the sidewalks, the architecture, the cabs, the temper of the people.” PeopleIfsKnowsFirstsDifferentFilmStreetsGrewGrew UpFirst TimeArchitectureImpressionFilmmakerTemperAngleNew YorkersSidewalkCab Author:Deniz Gamze Erguven
“Listening to the type of music I grew up with, like King Sunny Ade, Fela Kuti and experiencing different things and conditions and hardship, as well as the good times in Nigeria, has definitely carved me into who I am.” WellsDifferentConditionsListeningGrewTypeKingsGrew UpWho I AmGood TimesDifferent ThingsHardshipSunnyNigeria Author:Nneka
“Street skating, which is what I grew up with, is completely free of rules. You can do anything. When I see a skater go by, I think, What is this person going to do here? It's the same with people who write, who make music, who draw, who make movies. Creative people tend to have all of those different avenues in them.” PeopleThinkingWritingPersonsDifferentCan DoCreativeStreetsGrewGrew UpDrawsAvenuesCreative PeopleSkatingSkater Author:Jeffrey Deitch
“When I was young, I was always telling my parents and telling everybody that I was going to be a singer and an actress when I grew up. I took classes. I was in dance lessons. I took singing lessons. I was in the plays. I took acting lessons. I did different things that continued to keep me ready for this opportunity and ready for all the things that are happening now.” DifferentPlayYoungOpportunityParentActingClassReadyGrewLessonsGrew UpSingingHappeningsActressesSingersDifferent Things Author:Naturi Naughton
“If I grew up in a different background, I could see myself getting a gun and shooting an abortionist. That's my job, to imagine what could happen, what can make people go in different directions.” PeopleIfsDifferentHappensJobsImagineGrewGrew UpGunBackgroundsShootingDifferent DirectionsDifferent Backgrounds Author:Todd Solondz
“My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught me and what he spoke to me. America's strength is not our diversity; it is our ability to unite around common principles even when we come from different backgrounds.” DifferentAmericaFatherAbilityCommonPrinciplesTaughtSonGrewDiversityGrew UpBackgroundsImmigrantsSpokesDifferent Backgrounds Author:Ernest Istook
“I grew up with probably three different authors having a seminal influence on my childhood, Dr. Seuss being one and Maurice Sendak being another. That was my parents, who exposed me to their stories. That's how I was introduced to the whole idea of not just reading, but storytelling in general.” IdeasDifferentWholeStoriesThreeReadingParentInfluenceChildhoodGrewGrew UpStorytellingExposedDrs Author:Christopher Meledandri
“Oh, yeah. I grew up in Southern California in the 1960′s. It was very different. I was an only child as opposed to having siblings. My brothers all lived with my step-mom. I am very close to them, but we were not raised in the same house.” ChildrenDifferentHouseStepsBrotherGrewMomGrew UpYeahRaisedCaliforniaMy BrotherSouthern1960sSiblingOnly ChildSouthern California Author:David Cassidy
“I love food, all types of food. I love Korean food, Japanese, Italian, French. In Australia, we don't have a distinctive Australian food, so we have food from everywhere all around the world. We're very multicultural, so we grew up with lots of different types of food.” WorldDifferentGrewTypeGrew UpAround The WorldAustraliaItalianAustralianKoreanDistinctiveMulticulturalFood LoveI Love FoodAustralia DayKorean Food Author:Hugh Jackman
“I think I'm very in touch with nature because I grew up in that surrounding. That's a big part of who I am; I don't know anything different.” ThinkingKnowsDifferentBigsGrewGrew UpWho I Am Author:Eliot Paulina Sumner
“I've always had different diet kicks. I grew up in a big Italian family, kind of grew up a chubby kid, then went vegan in fifth grade. I did that for three years, then I went raw in high school. It's always been extreme, but in the last few years I've gotten into balance. I don't restrict myself like I used to.” YearsKindDifferentBigsKidsSchoolLastsUsedThreeGrewBalanceGrew UpHigh SchoolExtremesDietsKicksGradesItalianVeganThree YearsFifthFifth GradeItalian Family Author:Nico Tortorella
“I grew up mostly in the South, and there's definitely something about the South that's different from the North. When people ask me where I'm from, I say Louisiana. I spent more years there than anywhere else.” PeopleYearsDifferentAsksGrewGrew UpSouthAsk MeLouisiana Author:Steven Soderbergh
“I grew up in a small village close to a big lake. There are heavy winds there, and they always sound different. I like these sounds best.” DifferentBigsSoundWindGrewGrew UpHeavyLakesVillageSmall Villages Author:Christian Fennesz
“When I grew up in Tanzania, I went to school with kids who were blind and deaf, and we were all in one class. There wasn't a different class or teacher for them, so they didn't learn anything. I'm hoping to organize a school to train teachers to help children with disabilities. It's my future goal. I want to move back to Tanzania and do that eventually.” WantChildrenDifferentHelpingKidsSchoolMovingGoalClassTeacherGrewGrew UpBlindTrainDisabilityOrganizeDeafMy FutureTanzaniaFuture Goals Author:Herieth Paul
“Listen- my relationship with radio on a personal level is nothing but a one way love-a-thon... I love radio, I grew up on radio. That's where I heard Buddy Holly, that's where I heard Chuck Berry. I couldn't believe it the first time I heard one of my records on the radio, and I STILL love hearing anything I'm involved with on radio, and some of my best friends were from radio. But we were on different sides of that argument, there's no question about that.” WayFirstsBelieveStillsDifferentSidesLevelsRecordsHeardGrewInvolvedGrew UpFirst TimeArgumentRadioHearingOne WayMy Best FriendBuddyChuckBerriesHolliesDifferent SidesThon Author:Bernie Finkelstein
“I'm a southern girl, and I grew up with this slightly schizophrenic upbringing where I bounced back and forth between Atlanta, Georgia, and a tiny mountain town called Brevard, North Carolina. My parents were divorced, and my two lives were very different because of socioeconomic reasons.” TwoDifferentReasonGirlParentGrewMountainGrew UpTownsTinySouthernDivorcedBack And ForthUpbringingGeorgiaCarolinaAtlantaNorth CarolinaSchizophrenicTwo LivesSouthern GirlAtlanta Georgia Author:Lauren Myracle
“I really tried to push every genre that I could into this record. I wanted every song to have this feel, where as soon as the listener tunes in, they say "That's CoJo, that's Cody right there." That being said, it is a little different. There's Americana, there's Bluegrass, there's some rock, there's some really George Jones-style stuff on it, slow-style Ray Price country elements, there's some modern country, a little of this and a little of that. We tried to push a lot for show versatility, because I grew up with a lot of versatility in my music.” FeelsLittlesSaidDifferentCountryShowsWantedSongStuffRecordsModernRocksStyleGrewElementsGrew UpGenreTunesRaysListenersBluegrassVersatilityAmericanaGeorge Jones Author:Cody Johnson