Quotes about "Youth & Coming of Age"

I've got three sisters, five aunties, and my mom. It must have had an influence on me growing up. ”

I'm just coming to terms with the fact that I will always do lots of different things and I can't really stay in one place too long. ”

It really is a dream coming true, being on Billboard. ”

When I was 17, I grew from being something like 5'2'' to 6 foot - I grew a lot - and I don't remember growing... I feel like the same thing is true of writing. You're waiting for Santa Claus to come down the chimney, but you just fall asleep at some point, and then the magic happens. ”

When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building. ”

English fiction was something I loved growing up, and it changed my life - it changed the trajectory of my life. ”

Once you can get a fan to listen to an album a handful of times and really have a lot of substance for them to grasp, then you're looking at having a fan that really appreciates what you do for life and can appreciate coming to see it live. ”

I mean, it's weird because people lately have been coming up to me and going, 'Oh, my God. '300' is huge.' I'm like, 'Really? It's not done yet!' ”

My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground. ”

In reality, I've always been an actor - since I was a kid. I did theater growing up in New York. I was always in the plays in school. I was either going to be an actor or an athlete or a soldier. Those were kind of the three paths that I always kind of embarked on. ”