Experience Quotes
There's a vintage which comes with age and experience.
New Jersey shaped who and what I am. Growing up in Jersey gave you all the advantages of New York, but you were in its shadow. Anyone who's come from here will tell you that same story.
I went to a radio station on Long Island in 1982, and thank goodness for me, it was so new that there was no receptionist. So the DJ opened up his booth, and took my tape and listened to it and thought it was a hit song.
I'd been round the world a hundred times and had started to forget where I'd been. I knew I'd been there: it said it on the tour map. I could remember the name of the city but I couldn't remember what it was like - it was a massive blur.
Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet.
It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down.
Of course I'm going to say 'I'm a thug,' that's because I came from the gutter and I'm still here!
If you could walk a mile in my shoes you'd be crazy too.
I'm not a gangsta rapper. I rap about things that happen to me. I got shot five times. People was trying to kill me.
I meet so many people that just sort of say, "I want to thank you for your music. It really helped me" or "It changed my life."
In Liverpool we'd only done one-hour sessions. In Hamburg we had to play for eight hours. We played very loud, bang, bang, all the time. The Germans loved it.
In this bright future you can't forget your past.
There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.
My life has often been described as 'from rags to riches' but in fact, the Ross's were never raggedy.
I work with my brother Finneas, and he produces all of my music in his little bedroom in our house. We actually tried renting out a studio for a month when we were producing 'Don't Smile at Me,' but it was really hard there, and we ended up just doing it at home anyway.
Gospel music was the thing that inspired me as a child growing up on a cotton farm, where work was drudgery and it was so hard that when I was in the field I sang all the time. Usually gospel songs because they lifted me up above that black dirt.
I had a song called "Folsom Prison Blues" that was a hit just before "I Walk The Line." And the people in Texas heard about it at the state prison and got to writing me letters asking me to come down there. So I responded and then the warden called me and asked if I would come down and do a show for the prisoners in Texas.
When I was 17 - 16, my father and I cut wood all day long and I was swinging that crosscut saw and hauling wood.
Every week, Dennis Day sang an old Irish folk song. And next day in the fields, I'd be singing that song if I was working in the fields.
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