The first person that I ever heard sing a song I wrote was Jason Derulo. I was in the studio when he was doing it, and I mean, I've heard that guy's voice my whole life. When he was singing words I wrote, I started kind of choking up, but I tried to be all manly and puff my chest up and be all, 'Yeah, it's not a big deal.'
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Related I think I've been influenced by everything I've ever heard. The first thing I ever heard was... J. D. SOUTHER What I wrote all the time when I was a kid - I don't want to call it 'poetry,' because i... CARRIE FISHER When I first heard 'Robocop' was going to be remade. I said, 'Yeah, that's interesti... JOEL KINNAMAN I have a younger brother and sister who actually play in my band, and we were always into Disney mus... LAURA MVULA I had no particular image of Chicago in mind when I wrote 'My Kind of Town.' All I wanted to... SAMMY CAHN I never thought that I'd be dancing with Shia LaBeouf. When I heard he was going to be my partne... MADDIE ZIEGLER When I was 13, I started writing songs, and it fell into my lap all of a sudden. I wrote poems and j... KELSEA BALLERINI I've spent months living in Africa and India. So it's not like I was sheltered when I starte... ISABEL LUCAS What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw! DEYTH BANGER Every song brings back memories, like I remember where I wrote all these songs. 'Universal Heart... JULIANA HATFIELD All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel... and that's what I've bee... COUNT BASIE I got it into my head that I was going to be starring in movies that I wrote, so that's what I d... LARRY BISHOP I started writing songs when I was real young, when I was 3 years old. The piano spoke to me - I don... IAN AXEL I was very ambitious. It all started because my first boyfriend dumped me when I was 14. I'd alw... JANE MARCH I wrote 'Lights' a long, long time ago. And I expected it to be on the album, because it was... ELLIE GOULDING When I was in high school, I was a bad singer. I mean, all my early acting was musical theater, and ... SAM CLAFLIN I knew that I could sing when I was young. I would listen to a lot of jazz; I'm a big jazz fan. ... ANDRA DAY First play I ever did was 'Footloose.' I played the part of Willard when I was 16. I think I... MILES TELLER I wanted to escape so badly. But of course I knew I couldn't just give up and leave school. It w... ZHANG ZIYI Well, I've never left my faith - but have I made a lot of mistakes? But was I fortunate that I w... BILLY RAY CYRUS For me, I've always wanted to be a nun. I mean, I think about what it's like to be a nun. An... KATE MICUCCI Yeah, I mean, climbing's always been a massive hobby of mine up until, kind of, recent times whe... ANDY SERKIS When was the last time you were super offended? I might be like, 'That's the dumbest thing I... JUSTIN THEROUX People in my family and camp who grew up listening to rap music love 'We Are Young.' I'v... JANELLE MONAE The trapeze was my first love. To me, it's normal. It's all I've ever known. But when I ... NEON HITCH I think the first time I really heard poetry was in the schoolyard. Just the little limericks that k... JILL SCOTT 'Evil Dead' was such a big movie in my life. It's one of the few that I really remember ... FEDE ALVAREZ I'm a writer first and a singer second. And then I started editing my own videos when I was 17, ... LANA DEL REY When Sinatra said, 'For my money, Tony Bennett is the best singer I've ever heard,' it c... TONY BENNETT I was born an optimist, as I always say. If I wake up in the morning with a pain in my chest, I'... TERRY WOGAN I've heard that George Clooney did something like nine pilots before 'ER' was picked up,... ANDIE MACDOWELL When I first started, the very first body of music I made when I got signed to Atlantic were songs w... WYNTER GORDON I'm not the same person as the character I do in my songs. She's crazy! The 'Daddy Song&... CARLY CRAIG I grew up on a farm and my grandfather quit school when he was 12, but when it came to common sense ... IAN DUNBAR The very first time I ever heard anything of mine on the radio, I was in New Jersey, and I was in my... FRANKIE VALLI I think working with Johnny Depp was very intimidating. It was my fault though. I mean he's a to... FRANKA POTENTE It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and ... PATRICK MARBER I started writing when I was around 6. I say 'writing,' but it was really just making up stu... HUNTER HAYES I remember where I was when I first heard 'Boyz N The Hood' - 126th Street and Normandy, Sou... F. GARY GRAY I was born in North Carolina but moved to a suburb just outside of Philadelphia when I was 5, so mos... SARAH STEELE In maybe 1963, we had 'Collier's Encyclopedia,' and they sent us their yearly LP. I hear... DANA CARVEY I've always loved 'Umbrella.' Funny enough, my ex-husband wrote that, and I'm not sa... CHRISTINA MILIAN I have to say that when I first started singing, I didn't think it was a very noble profession. ... LESLEY GORE I'm a hip-hop guy, and the first time I heard Eminem was in '96. He was on a record with Sha... RUSSELL PETERS The first song that I remember writing in its entirety was when I was 9 years old. I wrote it on a b... KAT EDMONSON When I met Letterman, he told me he thought 'Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)' was the grea... DARLENE LOVE I was probably 8 years old; my mom let me stay up one night. She's like, 'You have to see th... MARK RUFFALO When I first met Alan, I was absolutely terrified. I was 19, he was Alan Rickman, and he's got t... KATE WINSLET When I wrote 'Sideways Stories from Wayside School' I never expected it to be published. It ... LOUIS SACHAR My dad was pretty old school. I've had a job since I can remember, and it's not like he was ... SCOTT EASTWOOD My mama never wore a pair of pants when I was growing up, and now that's all she wears. It was s... DOLLY PARTON I was a 'young adult' when I wrote 'The Outsiders,' although it was not a genre at t... S. E. HINTON You start singing by singing what you hear. So everyone, when they first start singing, they natural... KEHLANI When I was a teenager, my idol was the Dutch footballer Johan Cruyff. He's the only person I'... FERRAN ADRIA My life in the town I grew up in was much quieter than 'The End of Vandalism.' Part of the r... TOM DRURY When I heard 'Back to Black' from Amy Winehouse, I was, like, 'Wow.' To hear such a ... ELLA HENDERSON When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophica... BARRY MCGUIRE I don't know how old I was when I started writing books. But, I was born in 1931, and I wrote my... ED EMBERLEY I'm a pretty big dork. It's crazy. I'm one of those people who grew up with all kinds of... ANNA KENDRICK Why would anyone get married and have babies? That's the dumbest idea I've ever heard in my ... AZIZ ANSARI I've been a Cub all my life. I came up here when I was 20 years old and spent my whole career he... RON SANTO The nude scenes were a little eerie and I felt a bit odd. Yeah, when the camera scanned up my body, ... NATASHA HENSTRIDGE All my life, I have taken inventory at intervals. For example, when I became a movie actor and sudde... KIRK DOUGLAS I'm a late bloomer. It's taken me a long time to find my voice, and I think all the records ... JENNY LEWIS The first song I wrote was called 'Here I Go Falling In Love' I wrote it in the sixth grade. BABYFACE When I initially started acting, all I wanted to do was to be in one movie. That's it. That was ... ADAM BEACH Singing was my first love and I never even considered it after I started acting, but now I'm bri... AMANDA SEYFRIED When I was growing up, I never heard the word 'racism.' It was only in Paris I encountered t... AZZEDINE ALAIA 'This guy's a clown! He's just all talk!' I've heard that many times in my caree... CONOR MCGREGOR I have to say that getting to tackle Maria in 'The Sound of Music' at Carnegie Hall was surr... LAURA OSNES I met Arcade Fire on their first record, 'Funeral.' I loved that record, and it was a record... SPIKE JONZE Someone told me, 'When you go see Pearl Jam, it's going to be a spiritual experience,' a... BECKY LYNCH He's the reason why I write music. If he's reading this - James Taylor, I'd love to work... CHARLIE PUTH The music kind of possesses me when I sing. So whenever I start to sing on a show - I mean, first, I... JACKIE EVANCHO I never even thought of myself as deadpan until someone wrote an article about me about a year after... STEVEN WRIGHT When I started singing, I was covering Lauryn Hill, Brandy, and all the girl groups of the '90s.... KEHLANI When 'Ally McBeal' started, I went, 'Oh, my God.' It's like what I was doing. ... MELANIE MAYRON I enjoy acting now more than I ever have. I've had lots of difficult times when I was younger, b... BRIAN COX I had a Ford F-250. It was a big ol' farm truck, but it wasn't a rig. That's about the b... NATHAN FILLION I started classes and it wasn't because I was like, 'I want to be an actor!' - I was rea... CAITY LOTZ I made a movie when I was 15 years old with all my friends. This is when IMDb was a little more lax ... LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA He's my favorite! He wrote and produced, and starred in and cast all of his movies! Can you imag... EMMA STONE The poem 'What Teachers Make' is not without its detractors. This one person wrote to me and... TAYLOR MALI So I think it was a good thing It was a little surreal watching Leo scream 'I'm not going to... JON CROSBY When I was in the eighth grade, I wrote this huge long paper about how I had no idea what I was gonn... SHANTEL VANSANTEN I've always been kind of a mutt creatively. I started off in journalism, and I've actually d... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI I was incredibly determined - I wrote short stories, I wrote the beginnings of novels. I wrote a lit... CANDACE BUSHNELL I'm all for making a woman-empowering song. I get that, and I think that's dope. I've go... LIL REL HOWERY I didn't know why I couldn't sing - all I knew was that it was muscular or mechanical. Then,... LINDA RONSTADT When I wrote 'Fight Song,' I was in a particular low point. I needed to remind myself to not... RACHEL PLATTEN My mum left my dad when I was six months old, so I don't know him at all. I had no male figures ... CATHERINE TATE When I started comedy, I was a big Eddie Murphy fan. I thought if you did stand-up, you were suppose... LIL REL HOWERY The worst story I ever wrote was after the conviction of Jeff Skilling and Ken Lay. My co-author and... BETHANY MCLEAN It's so funny how my name has always been such a big deal. When I was growing up, my family was ... CALISTA FLOCKHART My mother wouldn't allow me to speak slang when I was growing up. But when I got outside, around... QUEEN LATIFAH The Rilo Kiley song 'A Better Son/Daughter' is my most requested song - especially for peopl... JENNY LEWIS I did a couple songs with this hip-hop guy named Tim Dark. He was working in the same studio I'v... ALAN VEGA One of the bibles of my youth was 'Birds of the West Indies,' by James Bond, a well-known or... IAN FLEMING When I was growing up, there was nobody in my family - not even my mother - who I could look to and ... FRANK OCEAN I just turned 40, and it's weird to think that I've been doing this almost my whole life. I ... PAUL WALKER
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CHARLIE CHAPLIN Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone. CHARLIE CHAPLIN A man's true character comes out when he's drunk. CHARLIE CHAPLIN Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles. CHARLIE CHAPLIN To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it! CHARLIE CHAPLIN A day without laughter is a day wasted. CHARLIE CHAPLIN I try desperately to never drink bottled water. CHARLIE HUNNAM The most important thing is being passionate about what you're doing and always give it your all... CHARLIE WHITE Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference. CHARLIE CHAPLIN I think that people have expectations of themselves and other people that are based on these fiction... CHARLIE KAUFMAN I have one speed, I have one gear: go! CHARLIE SHEEN When I'm writing, I'm trying to immerse myself in the chaos of an emotional experience, rath... CHARLIE KAUFMAN Claire Danes is lovely and a really great actress. CHARLIE COX I have a personality that tends to be somewhat compulsive, and I do tend to think in a circular way.... CHARLIE KAUFMAN I am on a drug. It's called Charlie Sheen. CHARLIE SHEEN Money makes people stupid. They don't have to work as hard as people who don't have money. That's wh... CHARLIE HUSTON Slash sat me down at his house and said, You've got to clean up your act. You know you've go... CHARLIE SHEEN The body cannot produce enzymes in perfect combinations to metabolize your foods as completely as th... CHARLIE TROTTER Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul. CHARLIE CHAPLIN I'm dealing with fools and trolls and soft targets. It's just strafing runs in my underwear ... CHARLIE SHEEN I've spent, I think, close to the last decade effortlessly and magically converting your tin can... CHARLIE SHEEN I'm here tonight, not as a Republican, not as a Democrat, but as an optimistic American who unde... CHARLIE CRIST When I was a kid, probably 16 or 17, I got spotted by a model scout that wanted to represent me, and... CHARLIE HUNNAM El tiempo es el mejor autor: siempre encuentra un final perfecto. CHARLIE CHAPLIN The company Sunfare delivers food to my house, and I eat six meals day. My two cheats are hot chocol... CHARLIE EBERSOL The best way to not get your heart broken, is pretending you don't have one. CHARLIE SHEEN I’m different,” said the Kid. “My gran always said I was half clever, half stupid, and half cr... CHARLIE HIGSON I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progre... CHARLIE PARKER As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I... CHARLIE CHAPLIN As a former lifelong Republican, it pains me to tell you that today's Republicans - and their st... CHARLIE CRIST The institutions of college athletics exist primarily as unreality fueled by deceit. The unreality i... CHARLIE PIERCE The typical response from people when I tell them I'm diabetic is, 'Oh, I'm sorry to hea... CHARLIE KIMBALL You know, as attorney general, there's no issue more important than making sure you are safe, th... CHARLIE CRIST What they're not ready for is guys like you and I and Nails and all the other gnarly gnarlington... CHARLIE SHEEN It's a lot harder to get people to 'ooh' and 'aah' over beets and carrots than i... CHARLIE TROTTER Freedom does not come without a price. We may sometimes take for granted the many liberties we enjoy... CHARLIE DENT My family influenced me very deeply because my dad came from a musical background, from the hillbill... CHARLIE HADEN Bill Clinton was not a symbol. People did not invest in him their idea of what America should be or,... CHARLIE PIERCE Excellence is about fighting and pursuing something diligently, with a strict and determined approac... CHARLIE TROTTER We made history when President Obama appointed Sonia Sotomayor, a proud Latina, the first Hispanic S... CHARLIE GONZALEZ We're here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That's what ar... CHARLIE HADEN The bass, no matter what kind of music you're playing, it just enhances the sound and makes ever... CHARLIE HADEN When I think about athletes, probably my favorite guest of all time among baseball players was Ted W... CHARLIE ROSE What an amazing place Beacon Hills is. CHARLIE CARVER