I was signed at 18 and had to grow up quickly.
‐‐ Rita Ora
I was signed at 19 years old to a major label, and dropped by the time I was 22.
‐‐ Nate Ruess
I was signed by L.A. Reid on Arista Records when I was 16. He understood me and believed in me. Arista folded and I got put on RCA or whatever, then there were new people there, and every six months it changes and more new people come in.
‐‐ Avril Lavigne
I was signed to A&M, I was signed to Lou Adler, who had a company within a company, which was A&M Records, and everything - James Taylor, Rita Coolidge, Carole King - I worked on all of that stuff.
‐‐ Merry Clayton
I was signed to a record label at the same time as my friend Elliot Murphy, who makes great records to this day.
‐‐ Bruce Springsteen
I was signed to a record label when I was younger. I was in a group, and I just wasn't - personally, I wasn't ready to get out there. I don't know. It was a pop group. Not like the Spice Girls, but when you don't have any control over anything, it's disheartening.
‐‐ Tika Sumpter
I was signed to MGM. I was in Vegas for sixteen weeks at the Sands Hotel.
‐‐ Solomon Burke
I was signed to RCA to be a country singer.
‐‐ Ronnie Milsap
I was signed when I was 19 years old, in 1980. I went to Germany and France. Seeing the world at that time was just an awesome experience for a teenager.
‐‐ Kurtis Blow
I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman; I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a big mouth, now, but usually from those whose opinion I don't respect.
‐‐ Sandra Cisneros
I was silver-white by the time I was 35, but having grey hair makes me look washed out. My wife and son have both said that grey hair doesn't suit me because I have a boyish face.
‐‐ David Cassidy
I was singing a lot of waltzes. And I was with Jerry Kennedy, my producer, and he was playing me some songs, and he said, hey, I want to play you this song that I'm going to get Jackie Ward to record.
‐‐ Reba McEntire
I was singing about six notes higher than I had to, in a range that kept me up in a bubblegum sound.
‐‐ Nancy Sinatra
I was singing before I could talk.
‐‐ Shelby Lynne
I was singing before I started acting. As a kid, I would always perform at the big family parties.
‐‐ Chrissie Fit
I was singing doo-wop on the corner under the streetlight with four other guys when it wasn't called doo-wop. We just got together and sang, so that music is inside of me. It's a lot of stuff that has been rolling around in here and becoming this compost and has made me who I am as a singer.
‐‐ Al Jarreau
I was singing in a mall, and I picked a girl to come up onstage with me. As I was grabbing her hand, I fell off the stage. It felt like I was in the air forever, flying like Superman.
‐‐ Aaron Carter
I was singing when I was two years old, and my parents were very supportive, but they weren't musicians themselves.
‐‐ John Oates
I was single for a really long time, then I realized I had abandonment issues. Then I found love online.
‐‐ Patti Stanger
I was single for six years and during those six years I went back to college and got my degree in Social Work and then... while I was single... Barney came here to Portsmouth on vacation.
‐‐ Betty Hill
I was single-minded and I had tunnel vision. Now it's time for a change.
‐‐ Evelyn Ashford
I was single-minded on what I wanted to do since I was like nine or ten.
‐‐ Sam Elliott
I was sitting alone in a grim mood - furious that the press attacked Senator Edwards on the price of a haircut. But it inspired me - from now on, all haircuts, etc., that are necessary and important for his campaign - please send the bills to me... It is a way to help our friend without government restrictions.
‐‐ Rachel Lambert Mellon
I was sitting in my office when someone called to tell me two light planes had collided with the World Trade Centre. I turned on my television; before long, there was this procession of people of all kinds walking up the street. What I remember most was the silence of that crowd; there was no sound.
‐‐ Tom Wolfe
I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany that they weren't paying me for my acting, for God's sake, but to own me. And from then on, it became clear and an awful lot easier to deal with.
‐‐ Angela Carter
I was sitting in the toilet and I was by myself. I was tired of playing with the roller, so I said I'd better write a book.
‐‐ Don Rickles
I was sitting on my mom's lap across from my father to see Kay Thompson at Ciro's. And I always remember this energy force, this woman flying around the room and singing these harmonies so everyone went, 'Wow!' So I thought, 'That's what I want to do.'
‐‐ Liza Minnelli
I was sitting on the bus, and the sign said if you're ready to better your life, come to Medgar Evers College, and I got off the bus and went to Medgar Evers College.
‐‐ Iyanla Vanzant
I was six months old at the time that I was taken, with my mother and father, from Sacramento, California, and placed in internment camps in the United States.
‐‐ Robert Matsui
I was six when my parents divorced, and that was tough for me.
‐‐ Andie MacDowell
I was six when we came to this country. When I was 14 or so, I still had a lot of trouble with it.
‐‐ Joe Eszterhas
I was six years old when I saw my first Godard movie, eight when I first experienced Bergman. I wanted to be a director when I was fourteen.
‐‐ Julie Delpy
I was skating with friends in my neighborhood, and then eventually I was invited to go to the skate park with one of them. When I saw people flying all around - literally flying in and out of bowls - that is when I knew I wanted to do it. I wanted to figure out how I could get there and how I could fly.
‐‐ Tony Hawk
I was skeptical about doing Texas Chainsaw at first because it's such a cult classic. I'd seen some of the sequels and was not a fan of those.
‐‐ Jessica Biel
I was skinny as a rail and had high cheekbones and a very interesting face - or so I was told.
‐‐ Grace Jones
I was slapped down to the ground when my son Wade died in 1996, in April of 1996.
‐‐ John Edwards
I was sleeping in a water bed for a couple of years, recommended by my doctor. I was never comfortable in that water bed. In the middle of the night you would hear something happening - water and bubbles. I would always think there was some intelligent life in the water bed.
‐‐ Jo Nesbo
I was sleeping the other night, alone, thanks to the exterminator.
‐‐ Emo Philips
I was slicking my hair back when I was in sixth grade.
‐‐ G-Eazy
I was slightly brain damaged at birth, and I want people like me to see that they shouldn't let a disability get in the way. I want to raise awareness - I want to turn my disability into ability.
‐‐ Susan Boyle
I was slightly disappointed, but also encouraged, because I put myself in position to win a major, which is all even Tiger says he tries to do.
‐‐ Stuart Appleby
I was slightly disheartened when three of my films didn't work at the box-office. But the silver lining is that people did appreciate my work in those films. Had my performance gone unnoticed, I would've been in big trouble then.
‐‐ John Abraham
I was small but slow as a college tackle.
‐‐ S. Robson Walton
I was smart and married somebody who could do for me what I couldn't do for myself.
‐‐ Rob Lowe
I was smart enough to go through any door that opened.
‐‐ Joan Rivers
I was smart, to tell you the truth. I'm not really bright, but I'm not stupid.
‐‐ Bobby Vinton
I was so adamant about proving myself for so long and I've gotten to the point where I don't have to do that as much.
‐‐ Michelle Branch
I was so affected by the tragic shootings that took place in Newtown, Connecticut, as we all were.
‐‐ James Langevin
I was so afraid of upsetting people, and not being liked for saying something that was not to everyone's taste.
‐‐ Geri Halliwell