St. Lucia Quotes About Growing Up

Quotes about: Growing Up

• I went to this boy's choir school when I was growing up, and I think that the first time that I consciously started making music was when this one kid joined our class. He was an amazing pianist and would come up with all these ideas. I've always had a really competitive side, so I saw him doing that, and was like, "I have to try writing songs as well."

  St. Lucia

  Song, Growing Up, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• When I was growing up, it was still during Apartheid, so the country was very shielded from the outside artistic world. Anything that was too subversive was basically banned. All the music that we got from outside of South Africa was the poppiest, least subversive music that you could get.

  St. Lucia

  Country, Growing Up, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I feel like kids that grew up in New York City or in L.A. were exposed to all these subcultures and subgenres, whereas I was only exposed to the poppiest of pop music so I never had this negative connotation towards pop music. That's not South African music having an effect on me, but just how international music was filtered through South Africa affected me. It gave me a not-negative connotation towards pop music growing up.

  St. Lucia

  New York, Growing Up, Kids

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• The racial conversation in the States is so multifaceted and multilayered. Obviously it's not always a positive conversation, but it's just so much more detailed than it was when I was growing up in South Africa.

  St. Lucia

  Growing Up, States, Conversation

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• My family still lives over there [ in South Africa] .I miss them terribly. I would say that most of my life over there was probably very similar to the sort of life someone would experience growing up somewhere like Australia or in the US.

  St. Lucia

  Growing Up, Australia, Missing

  Source: www.planetnotion.com

• You may be surprised to know that growing up, I wanted to be a writer of children's books.

  St. Lucia

  Children, Growing Up, Book

  Source: arcthemagazine.com

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