Grew Quotes

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.

Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else even cared.

The beer and the wurst were wonderful, but I was dying to be back in the South, where the livin' was easy, where the fish were jumpin', where the cotton grew high.

That was the big thing when I was growing up, singing on the radio. The extent of my dream was to sing on the radio station in Memphis. Even when I got out of the Air Force in 1954, I came right back to Memphis and started knocking on doors at the radio station.

I grew up playing in clubs - that's my spiritual stomping ground.

I used to be so delusional. I always imagined I could be more than I was, and eventually I grew and evolved into that person.