Kirstin Maldonado Quotes

I actually got to go back to where I was born and perform there. I just brought my mom up onstage and was like, 'Look, here we are.'

I was about 10 when I first began to sing. My mother had been away for three weeks, and I learned 'Don't Cry for Me Argentina.' When she came back, I sang it in front of her, my auntie Linda, my father, my uncle Jim, and my grandmother.

On Saturdays I worked all day in Hunter Gaunt's drugstore in Winchester, and then at night, my mother drove me to Front Royal, where I sang pop tunes.

I find weddings really boring. They give speeches, your aunt kisses you on the cheek, and you're at a boring table. But it's different when it's your own.

When I did get married and then had children, it was Beatles' songs I sang to them at night. As one of the youngest of 24 cousins, I had never held an infant or baby-sat. I didn't know any lullabies, so I sang Sam and Grace to sleep with 'I Will' and 'P.S. I Love You.'

I like to sing because my mother was a singer. She sang to me all the time, so I learned to love singing. I did have a career as little 10-year-old George Benson. I made my first record as a vocalist, but I've been playing guitar since I was 9.

I loved Peg Bundy. I am so happy that I got to do that. It was really fun.

My sister really drooled a lot when she was younger. For her wedding, I was going to get her one of those lace drool cups that go around the ears.

My only way of getting my uncles' attention or aunts' attention or whoever's attention was by dancing and singing around the house.

The Olympia was a really special place for me as a kid. I saw Dad perform there so many times, so it means a lot.

I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.

I remember tap-dancing and singing in front of the TV when I was a kid, telling my dad to stop watching Ed Sullivan or Milton Berle and watch me.

When I got married, my mother was very surprised. She said: 'What on earth is going on? I thought you were gay?'

I was dictating to my mother when I was 5.

When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to bed. I remember her reading almost all year.

My dad would give me $10, which is a lot of money when you're 9, to sing at church, on tables at restaurants, at family functions, just about anywhere.

I was probably six years old when I first sang before an audience.

My mother was the first singer I had contact with. She sang constantly to us around the house, in church.

Our whole wedding cost 180 bucks. Afterward, we re-heated lasagna for everyone and set off fireworks.

When I was 10 years old my mom used to play Tupac while she cleaned the house.

I've been my mom's kitchen helper since I was a little kid.

I love singing. You know, my mother always used to encourage me, 'Sing, sing,' and I was in a choir in church, yes.

My mom was in the chorus of 'Hello Dolly' and 'The Worldly Players'; my dad would build the set.

Watching Princess walking down the aisle... when I heard the music and I saw her come down, I lost it. I was like, I'm just gonna let it go and enjoy the love and positive emotion.

Mum prayed to the Lord that when her children were born they wouldn't be tone deaf. Mum says at two years old I was singing my own little songs, she didn't know where I'd heard it so I must have made it up. I used to sing along with the radio.