“I mean, I grew up riding. I can't ever remember not being able to ride or rope and all that stuff. It was part of my life growing up, so it was fun for me.” MeanI CanAbleRememberFunStuffGrowing UpGrowingGrewGrew UpRidingRope Author:Tim McGraw
“I grew up listening to most of my parents' music, like The Beatles and ABBA and all that stuff.” StuffParentListeningGrewGrew UpAbba Author:Tammin Sursok
“I grew up on the crime stuff. Spillane, Chandler, Jim Thompson, and noir movies like Fuller, Orson Welles, Fritz Lang. When I first showed up in New York to write comics back in the late 1970s, I came with a bunch of crime stories but everybody just wanted men in tights.” MenWritingFirstsStoriesWantedStuffCrimeNew YorkGrewLateGrew UpBunchNoirTightsFritz Lang Author:Frank Miller
“I grew up watching skating all the time in the Olympic stuff.” StuffGrewGrew UpSkating Author:Amy Poehler
“I grew up listening to Patsy Klein, Reba Mcentire and would study their voices. But once I became bored with that, I moved on to more contemporary stuff like Sheryl Crow and I combined everything that I had learned from country and rock and made this CD.” MadeCountryStuffVoiceStudyRocksListeningGrewGrew UpMovedContemporaryBoredCrowCdsMoved OnI Moved On Author:Hope Partlow
“I grew up with synthesizers and weird, spacey music-hip-hop, R&B, modern rock-that I heard on the radio. That's influenced the way I play music. It's natural for me to go with what I feel. If I didn't let that other stuff out and stuck to a certain format, I would feel like I was missing out on something. I'm just enjoying my ride and being who I am.” IfsWayFeelsPlayCertainStuffEnjoyNaturalHeardModernRocksMissingGrewGrew UpHip HopRadioStuckWho I AmHipsHopsFormatMissing OutSynthesizers Author:Gary Clark, Jr.
“I grew up in a very small house with five brothers and sisters and my parents, all with one little bathroom. And from as early as I can remember, seven, eight years old, I was listening to music to get a way from it all. Then the discovery of all this amazing stuff that became more than just getting away from it, it became a part of my DNA.” WayYearsLittlesI CanRememberHouseStuffParentFiveBrotherListeningGrewGrew UpDiscoverySevenEightGet AwayBrothers And SistersDnaBathroomListening To Music Author:John Varvatos
“I grew up listening to Nirvana, and then went through some bad 90s pop stuff - a lot of Australian one-hit wonders.” StuffWonderListeningGrewGrew UpPopsAustralian Author:Courtney Barnett
“We've got a bunch of new writers now who tell me they grew up watching The Simpsons. It's bizarre, and they're writing some very funny stuff.” WritingFunnyStuffGrewGrew UpBunchBizarreFunny Stuff Author:Matt Groening
“I grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and my parents are really right wingers. My dad watches, like, five or six hours of Fox News every day and stuff like that.” StuffParentHoursWatchesFiveGrewDadSixGrew UpNewsMy DadFoxesRight WingOhioFox NewsCincinnati Ohio Author:Jeffrey R. Immelt
“I grew up in New Mexico, and the older I get, I have less need for contemporary culture and big cities and all the stuff we are bombarded with. I am happier at my ranch in the middle of nowhere watching a bug carry leaves across the grass, listening to silence, riding my horse, and being in open space.” NeedsBigsCultureStuffSpaceCitiesSilenceMiddleListeningGrewGrew UpHorseContemporaryGrassMexicoRidingBugsBig CitiesOpen SpacesNew MexicoBombardedMiddle Of Nowhere Author:Tom Ford
“I grew up around hunters. I love guns, bows, arrows, compasses and binoculars. I don't do any of that stuff, I just like the stuff. I shot one animal, in my life, and I didn't like it. If I had to skin an animal to eat it, I'd probably eat vegetables.” IfsStuffAnimalGrewGrew UpGunShotsSkinsVegetablesBowsHuntersCompassArrowsBinoculars Author:Tim Allen
“I'm a big fan of the '80s fantasy genre that I grew up watching, movies like "Krull" and "Clash of the Titans" and "Time Bandits" and all that stuff.” BigsStuffFantasyFansGrewGrew UpGenre80sClashTitansBandits Author:Zooey Deschanel
“I come from a musical family. Mom was a piano teacher for a large portion of her life, and Dad is a saxophone hobbyist who grew up in England during the heyday of Tubby Hayes and Ronnie Scott. I started taking piano lessons from my Mom, but it's too easy to slack off with your parent, so she passed me on to a friend of hers, where I got more motivated to play music by playing pop hits and TV themes. I did some classical training, but I was always more into the really thematic stuff.” PlayEasyStuffParentTeacherTvsGrewMomDadLessonsGrew UpTrainingEnglandMusicalMy MomPopsPianoThemeMotivatedPortionsSaxophonePiano LessonThematicHeydayPiano Teachers Author:Gerard Cox
“I don't think we ever sat down in the early days and said "hey lets be a band that wears make up". I think it was just natural for us. We grew up loving stuff like Alice Cooper, Kiss, The Misfits, and the more theatrical stuff. I always loved rock stars. I loved David Bowie and Freddie Mercury, and these people that were larger than life and iconic. I think that is what we always wanted to do.” PeopleThinkingSaidWantedStarsStuffNaturalRocksGrewBandKissingGrew UpHeySatRock StarTheatricalIconicMercuryMisfitsBowieLarger Than Life Author:Andy Biersack
“Me personally, I side more with punk rock bands. I grew up with The Misfits, The Dead Boys, The Damned, Dropkick Murphys, and early AFI. That was the stuff that really got me into music. Song writing wise, bands like Alkaline Trio were very important to me for beginning to write songs.” WritingImportantSongStuffSidesBoysWiseRocksGrewBandGrew UpPunkPunk RockRock BandsMisfitsTrios Author:Andy Biersack
“I grew up in an age where I loved going and buying a physical record. Things that were digital and all that stuff, it wasn't around. So I loved going and buying an album and looking through the inserts and reading stuff and seeing pictures.” AgeReadingStuffRecordsSeeingGrewGrew UpAlbumsBuyingDigitalInsert Author:Jason Aldean
“I really embrace things that I think people who like music can relate to, they grew up with the same stuff and know the same references so when they hear it being used as a metaphor to something else they'll be like that's unique, or funny or something that's relatable to me.” PeopleThinkingKnowsUsedStuffGrewGrew UpUniqueEmbraceMetaphorRelateRelatable Author:Hoodie Allen
“People who grew up in New York City or Los Angeles tend not to even understand what goes on in the rest of the country. I'm really glad to have grown up in an environment where I actually was kind of a weirdo because I was obsessed with comedy and movies and stuff.” PeopleKindCountryStuffCitiesEnvironmentComedyNew YorkGrewGoes OnGrew UpGladObsessedLos AngelesNew York CityWeirdo Author:Ed Helms
“I grew up with him [Michael Jackson] and I've spent a lot of time at Neverland and nothing has ever happened with me in any way. You have to look at both sides. I do think it is very convenient that his album came out and all this stuff is happening. I definitely do think that's very convenient... It really hurts me to see that his whole life is ruined.” ThinkingWayLooksWholeLife IsStuffSidesHurtHappenedGrewGrew UpHappeningsAlbumsWhole LifeBoth SidesRuinedConvenientHurt MeNeverlandIt Really Hurts Author:Nicole Richie
“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
“Even if you're starting from scratch and buying a new wardrobe, preppy clothes are very fairly priced compared to high fashion. They're very easy to absorb into your wardrobe. You probably already have stuff you can wear and there's a safety factor. You're dressed for success, in a way, if you look like you grew up with success.” IfsWayLooksEasyStuffFashionLike YouGrewClothesGrew UpSafetyStartingFactorsBuyingScratchesWardrobeHigh FashionPreppy Author:Lisa Birnbach
“Capricorn was one of the homes of the Southern rock movement with the Allman Brothers and Charlie Daniels and the Marshall Tucker Band. I don't think you can come from that area and not be influenced by that stuff a little bit, no matter what generation you grew up in.” ThinkingLittlesMatterHomeStuffBitsGenerationsRocksMovementBrotherGrewBandLittle BitGrew UpAreasNo Matter WhatSouthernCharlieCapricorns Author:Jason Aldean
“I grew up with classical music when I was a ballet dancer. Now when I have to prepare an emotional scene, to cry or whatever, I listen to sonatas. Vivaldi and stuff. It's just beautiful to me.” BeautifulStuffCryEmotionalGrewSceneGrew UpDancerBalletClassical MusicBallet DancerSonatasBallet ClassVivaldi Author:Diane Kruger
“I grew up doing martial arts, and I love martial arts movies and fight scenes. I'm pretty athletic, so I enjoy doing that stuff.” ArtFightingStuffEnjoyGrewSceneGrew UpMartial ArtsAthletic Author:Aaron Yoo
“I'm grew up a huge fan of The Three Stooges and Monty Python, so somebody getting slapped in the face with a fish, or falling out of a chair, or running into a door, or tripping over their own feet and eating it, is all stuff I find really, really funny.” RunningFacesFallThreeStuffDoorsFeetFansHugeGrewEatingGrew UpFishesChairsPythonTrippingMontyStoogesThree StoogesTripping Over Author:Thomas Sadoski
“The question is, 'how bad at sports were you as a kid?' I grew up near where they film Jersey Shore. If you weren't tan, muscular, and book-averse, you were a dork and a nerd and a geek and stuff. I remember being into Gary Larsen, Stephen Wright, Peter Sellers.” IfsBookKidsRememberFilmStuffSportsGrewGrew UpShorePeterNerdGeekJerseySellersGaryDorkJersey Shore Author:Demetri Martin
“I grew up on Bach and Beethoven and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly doing music, it's difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical stuff. That's the only reason I'm thinking of going on.” ThinkingI CanReasonNamesStuffDifficultQualityModernListeningGrewGrew UpComposerListening To MusicQuality Time Author:A. R. Rahman
“I like LA. LA is cool, but it ain't like home. Atlanta is home. All my friends are here, I grew up here. But LA is cool. Its more like a big office. Its work and you work, and you're meetin' people all the time, but its more like acquaintances than friends and stuff.I wanted to cut down on the profanity, because I think I'm funnier without sayin' a lot of cuss words.” PeopleThinkingHomeBigsWantedStuffCuttingGrewOfficeGrew UpMy FriendsAcquaintanceAtlantaProfanityCuss Words Author:Chris Tucker
“I grew up learning this stuff on the streets of New York. My brother and I used to play in the subway for money.” PlayUsedStuffGrowing UpStreetsNew YorkBrotherGrewGrew UpMy BrotherSubway Author:Don Alias
“My parents were real classic rock freaks, so I heard a lot of Zeppelin, Stones, Hendrix stuff. Thankfully, they were also into lots of old soul, too, so we listened to Stevie Wonder, Earth Wind & Fire and War. I was so isolated where I grew up (a small town in Pennsylvania) that there was literally no culture.” WarRealSoulEarthCultureStuffParentWonderFireHeardRocksWindGrewGrew UpStonesTownsClassicFreakIsolatedSmall TownPennsylvaniaHendrixZeppelinsOld SoulClassic Rock Author:Princess Superstar
“My father was a fish market porter. So I grew up on fish, because he used to steal one a day, I grew up on the very best fish that money could buy, 'cause he only stole the good stuff.” UsedFatherCausesStuffGrewGrew UpFishesStealing Author:Michael Caine
“Most of the music I've listened to or grew up listening to - a lot of it at least - is instrumental stuff.” StuffListeningGrewGrew Up Author:Flume
“I lived in Detroit until I was six. My older sister was living with us, and she listened to the Ohio Players and Stevie Wonder, so I grew up listening to stuff like that.” StuffWonderPlayerListeningGrewSixGrew UpDetroitOhioOlder Sister Author:Boots Riley
“I started wanting to inject more colorful chord phrasings from the music I actually grew up on, which was Hendrix, Rolling Stones, and stuff like that.” StuffGrewGrew UpStonesRollingChordsColorfulRolling StonesHendrix Author:Bucky Pope
“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
“I grew up in Nazareth, Penn., which was an hour and a half from New York, and an hour and a half from Philly. So bands that were touring came through one way or another. We got to see stuff people in other small towns didn't, like Wesley Willis. I couldn't have asked for a better place to grow up and be into music.” PeopleWayGrowsStuffHoursHalfGrowing UpNew YorkGrewBandGrew UpTownsOne WayBetter PlaceSmall TownTouringNazareth Author:Daughn Gibson
“I grew up in the church, with traditional hymns, but at the same time I was beginning to listen to pop music, the mid-60s, The Beatles, which had just as much influence on me as those hymns did. Then the hippy stuff like Pink Floyd started to raise questions about how I lived my life and the world in which I lived.” WorldStuffChurchInfluenceGrewGrew UpRaisesPopsTraditionalPop MusicHymnsRaises Questions Author:Alan Green
“I have a real hunger to experience life. I'm really, really inspired by my family. I grew up with my family, really did a lot; we took a lot of road trips, we did a lot of different businesses, we'd always tried stuff. For me, that just kind of sparked something from the time I was a kid.” KindDifferentRealKidsStuffGrewGrew UpMy FamilyInspiredHungerRoad Trip Author:Omar Benson Miller
“When I first started, it was the real basic stuff that was being played on the radio, so I was into Zeppelin, and Sabbath, and AC/DC, and all stuff like that. I grew up in New York, on Long Island, so the local radio stations played all that kind of thing.” FirstsKindLongRealStuffNew YorkGrewGrew UpRadioLocalsIslandsStationsSabbathZeppelinsRadio StationsLong IslandBeing Played Author:John Petrucci
“I like all of the typical hard rock bands. I'm an AC/DC fanatic. I love ZZ Top, just about any Van Halen, any Judas Priest, the list goes on and on, most of the Iron Maiden stuff. Those are the big bands, but I got my feel from, I grew up on Mountain and Humble Pie. That kind of stuff is where I get my feel from.” FeelsKindHardBigsStuffRocksGrewGoes OnBandMountainGrew UpHumbleListsIronPriestsPieTypicalVansFanaticsMaidensRock BandsJudasVan HalenHard RockIron MaidenHumble PieJudas Priest Author:Mark Mendoza
“If you grew up watching 'Star Wars' you're like, wow, look at Darth Maul, he has that outfit. And that lightsaber. And he's jumping. When I see stuff, rarely do I forget. And that's what I always wanted to wear.” IfsLooksWarWantedStarsStuffForgetGrewGrew UpWowJumping Author:Iman Shumpert
“Secretly everybody's getting tired of political correctness, kissing up. That's the kiss-ass generation we're in right now. We're really in a pussy generation. Everybody's walking on eggshells. We see people accusing people of being racist and all kinds of stuff. When I grew up, those things weren't called racist.” PeopleKindPoliticalStuffGenerationsGrewWalkingRight NowKissingGrew UpTiredAssAll KindsRacistPolitical CorrectnessCorrectnessPussyAccusingGetting TiredEggshellsWalking On Eggshells Author:Clint Eastwood
“I grew up reading Tolkien, and I love him. But I love him in the way that you love that rambly old grandfather. You have to sit through some pretty off-topic stuff before he starts telling his cool old war stories.” WayWarStoriesReadingStuffGrewGrew UpGrandfatherTopicsI Love HimWar Stories Author:Patrick Rothfuss
“I never really thought in terms of the concept of being a rock star - being around people like that just seemed like normal day-in-the-life stuff to me. Those were just the surroundings I grew up in.” PeopleStarsStuffTermRocksGrewNormalGrew UpConceptsSurroundingsRock Star Author:Anthony Kiedis
“My mom's a translator, my dad's a woodworker; that's the world I grew up in, that's the world I'm most comfortable in. The whole idea of Hollywood or any of that other stuff that unfortunately goes along with film, that wasn't part of my upbringing, thankfully.” WorldIdeasWholeFilmStuffGrewMomDadComfortableGrew UpHollywoodMy DadMy MomUpbringingTranslators Author:Tatiana Maslany
“I have an insatiable palate. I'll try anything once, with an open mind. However, there is a special place in my heart for Kraft Macaroni & Cheese. Don't get me wrong, I've sampled specialty Mac & Cheese all over the world, but nothing competes with the stuff I grew up on.” WorldTryingMindHeartStuffSpecialGrewMy HeartGrew UpCheeseOpen MindMacsInsatiableSpecial PlacesPalateSpecialtyMacaroni Author:Rachel Nichols