My music started as a way to break through weaknesses - like anxiety, which was completely taking over my whole life, where I could barely function.
Zola Jesus
I've always been very cautious with what I do. You know, that started at a young age. I always had the approach or the mentality I never wanted... →
Derek Jeter
I was homeless and I was in San Diego and I started singing in a local coffee shop and people started coming to hear me sing.
Jewel
All my early books are written as if I were Indian. In England, I had started writing as if I were English; now I write as if I were American. You... →
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
England gave me a language and literature, the basis of what I am as a writer, but when I started writing more directly about my own experience, it... →
I started out as a juggler, so I know what it means to spend eight hours a day, seven days a week practicing something that people just dismiss with... →
Penn Jillette
I've been through a lot, both personally and professionally, and the album that I started to record two and a half years ago is a different album... →
JoJo
Surrealism was necessary - essential, even - in the 1920s to bridge the gap between rationalism and the subconscious. It started something important.... →
Alejandro Jodorowsky
When I started to pay income tax, I was 50 years old.
In the late '70s, I had a band - the David Johansen band, for lack of a better name - and I started collecting, not records, but tapes from... →
David Johansen