Church Event Quotes

The first time I got onstage was when I was about 5 years old. It was at a church social, and I had a poem to recite.

I remember one of the first gigs I played with that amp was at a local church. They wanted someone to fill in with the guitar and my friend say, 'Ah, he can play.' And so I dragged the amplifier down and started playing and everybody started yelling 'turn it down!'

The first time I sang in church, when I was ten, the applause was so overwhelming that I started to weep. My mum had to rescue me from the stage.

When I was younger, I won a radio at a church raffle.

I actually spoke in an African-American church yesterday.

My first solo was in church when I was five.

I went to Montreal. My first gig went very badly. They just weren't laughing at anything. I found out they were a load of Christians, and it was a gig to raise money for a new church roof.

The first show we ever played was at my church.

I know I wanted to be a comic when I was nine. I was thirteen the first time I did it. I was attending a Methodist Church youth retreat at the University of Southern Alabama. They held a talent show on the last night. I won, and then I made out with a 14-year-old girl from Prattville, Alabama.

My family took me to church when I was like 4 years old, and I had to be in a pageant, and I was playing Jesus.

I did a concert at five years old in the garden of one of the church members, and we raised some money to buy a new piano in our little church.