Growing up in New England, being schooled and classically trained, it needed to shake, it needed to evolve.
When I was growing up, I was a huge San Francisco 49ers fan. The New England Patriots have a similar mold and plan to win a lot of games - reminiscent to that Bill Walsh era.
When I was growing up in Newcastle, there was one other Indian girl, and we got confused for each other constantly.
I was spoiled growing up in the 1970s because magazines were publishing the photographs of Helmut Newton and Guy Bourdin without compromise. You really felt that sense of freedom through their images.
Growing up in Niagara Falls, Ontario, I took classes as a young girl and became very serious about ballet, and also performed with a local company, although it wasn't a professional company.
Rachel Bilson, Nicole Richie, Vanessa Hudgens... so many of my idols growing up were Bongo girls.
When I was growing up in the U.S. in the 1970s, 35-40% of an average nightly newscast focused on international stories.
When people see what I have now, they have no idea of where I came from and how I didn't have anything growing up.
I wanted to be Beetlejuice. I watched nonstop 'Beetlejuice' and 'The Princess Bride' growing up.
I am an American, but a sense of otherness was part of my growing up. I spoke Norwegian before I spoke English. My mother is Norwegian.
We didn't have the Grand Ole Opry or country radio stations in Nova Scotia when I was growing up.
I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
When I was growing up, I would go hang out with older guys at night in blues clubs.
I'm used to being around kids. Even when I was growing up in London, I had an older sister, I had a younger sister that I used to look after from time to time.
While growing up, my dream and my goal was to win an Olympic gold medal. I did that, and both times, they were the proudest moments in my amateur career.
Oh I love horror movies, yeah. I think my favorite movie growing up was 'The Omen.' I actually wanted to be that little kid.
My father was a small business owner. When I was growing up, he ran a one-hour photo store - back when there were one-hour photo stores.
Growing up, the Opry was my Hollywood.
Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything.
Growing up in Orange County, it was all O.C. punk, L.A. punk. Black Flag, all the SST stuff.
