Nick Cummins Quotes

I was not the pampered baby, no. I'm five years younger, and my parents were actually very strict with me, more strict than with the other ones.

My sisters are stronger and my brother's bigger than me.

My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.

Actually, Keke is my nickname. When I was little, my sister was about four years old, and she had an imaginary friend named Keke. And she wanted my name to be Keke.

The story about me, apocryphal or not, is that I could sing before I spoke. My parents went into bedroom one day and there I was standing in the crib singing God Bless America.

Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three.

I was the little sister that was annoying.

My big brother still thinks he's a better singer than me.

I had an imaginary friend. I don't know when I stopped having an imaginary friend, but my mom and everybody in my family remembers it pretty good. It's definitely true.

When you're the younger brother, usually it's not that common that you're having these experiences that your older brother is in awe of.

I went to see my mother the other day, and she told me this story that I'd completely forgotten about how, when we were driving together, she would pull the car over, and by the time she had gotten out of the car, and gone around the car to let me out of the car, I would have already gotten out of the car and pretended to have died.

When I was about 9, my brother, who's six years older than me, started getting guitar lessons, and I wouldn't say that it inspired me to pick up an instrument: it was more me being like, 'Well, if he's getting guitar lessons, then so am I. I'm not missing out,' type of thing.

Always having that one-minute tag and always knowing that my brother was one minute older than me, it always made life much more competitive.

My brother Max is three and half years younger than me but more of a fussy eater.

My granddad was not a tall man but he weighed about 27 stone and my first memory is crawling across his belly. I remember it being a journey.

I am the youngest of three boys, and I was super-informed by what the older ones were into.

I'm four minutes older. Of all the competitions in our life, I won the first one. Though Drew is a quarter inch taller.

I fell out of the womb and landed in my mother's high heels.

My brother, who was older, was the gifted one, much more talented than I.

My father would pass gas and then blame it on imaginary animals.

There are five kids in my family and I'm the only one who didn't get a diploma. All the kids got their diplomas hanging in my father's room and I got my gold records. I'd say he was more proud of the diplomas.

When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.

...My sister Doreena who never lifted a royal finger growing up because she had the heart defect that we later found out was a fly on the X-ray machine.

So you're her brother? Says Linn. I guess we know who got the good genes.

Sometimes you remind me a lot of James. He called it my 'furry little problem' in company. Many people were under the impression that I owned a badly behaved rabbit.