Early Talent Quotes

I got a guitar when I was six and, instead of learning other people's songs, started to try to write my own, even at that young age.

I started singing when I started talking.

To tell you the truth, my father says I came out of the womb literally singing and dancing, as though there was a spotlight on me. When I ask what I was like when I was little, they just say 'loud.'

When I was 3 years old, I was playing banjo on a country music TV show.

When I was four, I wrote a song about falling into a black hole.

I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age.

When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.

When I was about five, I could do a vaguely decent American accent - straight through kind of decent - and 'Hercules' needed some kids. I definitely wasn't a good actor.

People don't understand what music really is. I've been a musician since I was 6 years old. I got my first piano, was playing recitals at 8, 10 I picked up a guitar, 12 I picked up my first Pearl Master drum set. I was an artist before I was an 'artist.'

I made my first complete song when I was 9.

When I was 17, I rewrote the songs for a musicalized version of 'Love's Labour's Lost.'

Before I could even hold a pen I was singing.

I have been singing for as long as I could talk.

I was 9 when I wrote 'Fate Stay with Me.' It was this fictional song about romance gone wrong.

I remember growing up singing; even when I was just three years old, I was singing all the time in the house. My parents said I was singing before I could even talk properly.

I started making music professionally when I was 14.

At the age of 11 is when I took my love & interest for singing a bit more serious.

My dad says I could sing before I could talk, if that's possible. I was always humming and things like that.

My parents never pushed me towards music. I feel like, growing up in a musical household and always being surrounded by it, I was always kind of a performer child. I remember my parents would have guests over, and they would bring their kids, and I would make sure that we were ready to put a show on.

'Lucky Man' I wrote when I was twelve years old. I wrote it when I first was given a guitar by my mother. I only knew four chords, but I used them all to write that song. And it just stayed with me, stayed in my head. I didn't even write it on a piece of paper. I remembered it.

The first song I wrote was when I was 11. It was called 'Life Is a Path Worth Taking.'

I got into cello in the fourth grade, and I played that for years. I adored playing it. I got an opera coach when I was 12 because I really wanted to learn how to sing properly. The only proper way to sing, I thought at that age, was opera.

I loved 'BattleDome.' It was the first thing I ever auditioned for, and I was so crazy in the audition that I knew I had the part.

Magic came very easy for me when I was a kid. When I was 8 years old I started doing it, and by the time I was 12, I was already published in magic books.

I started writing songs when I was real young, when I was 3 years old. The piano spoke to me - I don't remember when I wasn't playing piano. My second grade talent show was the first time I performed my own thing. I dressed up as Dracula and played a song called 'Monster Rock' that I wrote. And I won.