Alabama Birmingham Dame / Lady Führend / Leading Lokal / Local Mutter / Mother Oben / Up Theater / Theatre Woher / Where Wuchs / Grew
My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where I grew up.
I grew up in an era where an orchestra was like a treasure chest.
I wasn't hanging around the movie theaters in New York where I grew up, a Manhattan brat.
I grew up and lived in a Britain in which strikes and the threat of strikes had become part of the social fabric - and it was not very nice.
I can't think why mothers love them. All babies do is leak at both ends.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
I wanted to bring the R&B flavor and other Westernized sounds to my music, because that's the type of music I grew up listening to.
I grew up in a small town in Georgia where nothing bad happened - it was like Mayberry.
My mother is from Compton, California, but my father is from Hayneville, Alabama, and that's less than 20 miles from Selma.
