Quotes about "Youth & Coming of Age"

When you're coming out new, it's harder as a girl to gain fans because most of them are girls, and they can be like, 'Do we like her?' If I were a boy, it'd be much easier. ”

When I was growing up, I was surrounded by people that were listening to a lot of pop music. ”

I've written a lot of songs from watching women speak about women empowerment. ”

Art has been good for my soul. And it's been good for my brain. I think I'm a better painter now than I was a musician growing up. You struggle to see things and translate an image through your hands to a canvas. ”

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things. ”

Every couple needs glue to stay together. Like all marriages, I suspect, if you're busy you don't see it coming until you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube. It's a bit like going broke. It happens slowly and then very quickly. ”

I don't ever think of myself as coming from a particular class because my father was working class but made his living as a newspaper foreign correspondent - someone of no fixed abode, as he used to say - who was as comfortable dining with the Mountbattens in India as he was having a pint with the boys. He was very gregarious. ”

Sometimes growing pains are by fits and starts. ”

When I was growing up everybody I knew could sing. I had no choice. I had to sing. ”

We didn't have the Grand Ole Opry or country radio stations in Nova Scotia when I was growing up. ”