Jack Garratt Quotes

I used to buy nice clothes and drive a nice car when I couldn't afford it. But I spent all my money doing it, and now I don't have to. I like nice things. I like to travel in a certain style. I like to live in a nice place.

I used to sing songs from musicals all the time as a kid.

My mom took me to a Dolly Parton concert when I was 3.

I don't like expensive things... I just can't help looking in a magazine for the splurge and the save.

Overspending is as certain a part of the holiday season as overeating. But pushing away from both the table and the cash register at least a little bit sooner can make the post-holiday hangover hurt a little bit less.

I have some vivid memories of walking around as a child with a cassette tape.

Since I was eight years old. I didn't have a TV, so comic books were definitely my television, my soap operas, and all that.

I just went to your typical public schools, and my dad would take us to the movies every week, or he'd buy scalped tickets to San Antonio Spurs games. I remember I was four or five years old and my parents, who were very young, took us to see The Police in Austin, and Iggy Pop opened.

We've all had our thing. I listened to the Monkees when I was little kid.

I think because I'm not a parent, my most immediate connection to childhood is my memory of my own childhood.

Mum and Dad paid me 50 pence, which was a lot of money when I was 8 years old, not to dye my hair.

When I was a kid, if I liked something from merchandising, I'd have to go to the toy store.

I've bought every toy I ever wanted.

When I was growing up, I wanted to be Michael Jackson. I used to sing and dance and perform with my sister at parties for 50p.

I want my music to make you reminiscent or nostalgic of your childhood, or take you back to a better place.

Growing up in the '90s was the coolest thing to me.

If you don't need it, don't buy it.

My brother Steve, who was a few years older than me, had 'Bad' on tape, and I remember listening to 'Smooth Criminal' and just thinking it was the coolest thing ever. I must have been five or six at the time, and I remember walking around school by myself thinking I was Michael Jackson. I wasn't dancing, exactly - more like walking musically.

Growing up, I was into 'Power Rangers.'

That's a thing you most look forward to as a kid. The newest clothes or the newest shoes. Definitely getting the newest shoes and bragging to your friends about it.

I grew up without TV, I grew up listening to radio, I grew up reading.

I think it was, my parents got me a karaoke machine when I was about 9 years old. Even before that, they got me a tape recorder that I used to walk around my life with. And there was something about recording and then hearing myself back.

I remember when I was like 9, 10, 11 going into stores and saying, 'Wow! I wish I had this.'

I remember watching 'Apollo' with my other grandma - I have so many grandmas - and seeing these young girls sing... I knew in that moment that I wanted to sing.

When I grew up, there was no TV, nothing. The guitar could be my whole life. The kids today have Internet and TV and games and all that stuff.