Daya Quotes

I was always screwing around with music, but I really wanted to go to film school when I was in high school. I guess what happened was that I didn't get into Tisch, that's what happened. I got deferred. And I went to Hampsire and ended up making music like everybody else there.

I went to a public high school that had a very small graduating class of 156 students. I lived a relatively normal childhood until I turned probably around 16. Things started to take off career-wise.

If I could go back, I think I would be a rock star instead of an actor, man.

I had no interest in high school besides art.

I had this fascination with four-track recorders when I was in high school.

I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college.

I actually didn't get to go to my prom. I left high school when I was 16 to join 'NSYNC. I felt that was something I always missed out on, and all my friends got to go and would tell me about it.

When I was in high school, I don't know that I really had big dreams.

I've only been to high school on TV and in movies. I've never actually been to high school.

I really wanted to go to high school and be normal.

I think when I was younger I wasn't really sure if I wanted to act, so I played around with a few different ideas. I wasn't sure whether I might want to write or whether I might want to do something in fashion.

I'm this high school dropout. I quit in my sophomore year, when I was 15. I worked for a while in a deli, and when I was almost 17, I got married.

I get to sit at home with the dogs on the sofa, record in a closet in the office, send them off and, if I'm lucky, make a million dollars.

Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education.

From a very early age, I decided that I wanted to be able to do my music but still be able to live a normal life.

I always thought that I would have a recording career.

I finished Year 12 in Canberra, and I found it was the kind of place where people could go places.

My parents always told my sister and me that if we wanted to, we could be doctors and lawyers, like my father and his brothers, like some of their women friends. Denise and I had art in our sights, though.

I was in my 30s when I finally went to film school. It was kind of always going to happen, but I did try to keep it suppressed for awhile.

I grew up in Bridlington until I was 16, and I lived with my mum and my sisters. I finished school, got my GCSE's, and at the time I didn't know what I wanted to do.

As someone that really likes painting and visual art but also likes video and movies and also music and recording and style and clothes, it was hard to pick what to do with my life.

When I was 14 I wasn't even thinking of playing professional tennis. I was thinking of going to high school in Sweden then getting a job.

Becoming a tutor was among the many attractive post-collegiate side careers I failed to pursue while devoting the bulk of my days to writing fiction.

When I was at school I wanted to be a writer and an actress. Then this whole modelling thing happened.

The dream - you never achieve it. The excitement of life lies in the hope, in the striving for something rather than the attainment.