“I started playing guitar and writing songs when I was 15. I think what mainly sparked my interest was just the fact that I grew up listening to Cheryl King, Joni Mitchell, and James Taylor, and was just always inspired by that sort of organic art, and organic songs and just very natural songwriting that came out of some of those artists.” ThinkingWritingArtFactsArtistSongInterestNaturalListeningGrewKingsGrew UpInspiredGuitarSongwritingWriting SongsPlaying Guitar Author:Kate Voegele
“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
“I grew up on Stephen King, reading the books. I love the small town, 1950s feel to it, that nostalgia, and that old America. What happens when something weird starts happening to all these people, something other-worldly, something demonic?” PeopleFeelsBookHappensAmericaReadingGrewKingsGrew UpHappeningsTownsNostalgiaWorldlySmall TownDemonic Author:Alexander Koch
“My dancing came about as a way to be cool, actually. I knew early on that I was not a street kid. I didn't have the moxie, what it took to run the streets with the dudes that I grew up wanting to emulate. But I had a huge need to be accepted, so I found that I could be the party king. I did drugs really well, and I partied really well.” WayNeedsWellsRunningKidsFoundPartyStreetsHugeGrewKingsDrugGrew UpDancingAcceptedBeing CoolEmulateMoxie Author:Michael K. Williams
“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
“I grew up near King's Cross station in London, living in an apartment block where my dad was a caretaker.” GrewKingsDadGrew UpCrossesMy DadLondonBlockStationsApartmentCaretakers Author:Phil Daniels
“I grew up in the sixties watching B.B. King and Tito Puente and Miles Davis and Coltrane, everybody, Marvin Gaye, Jimi. And at the same time, with my left eye I was watching Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Mother Teresa.” EyeMotherLeftGrewKingsGrew UpMilesSixtyLutherTeresaMarvinColtraneChavezLeft EyeTito Author:Carlos Santana