I started performing in musical events after the success…

I started performing when I was 9 or 10, doing magic.

— Matt McGorry

I started performing in high school. There was a pretty great drama department at my school, and that's when I started doing plays and…

— Missi Pyle

At the age of 16 I started performing with a dance band in the evenings and began earning more money than my father, but…

— Jack Bruce

I basically started performing for my mother, going, 'Love me!' What drives you to perform is the need for that primal connection. When I…

— Robin Williams

I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to…

— Mamie Gummer

When I started performing in public, I was probably around 10 or 11.

— Patina Miller

I don't even know at what age I started, because it's always been there. Performing... creating... it's in my DNA.

— Janelle Monae

When I started performing, I played acoustic music, partly because that way you don't have to worry about interacting too much with other people…

— Patty Griffin

I remember when I started performing, I thought, 'Why is this something that we do after hours, underground?' I was waiting on the world…

— Alyssa Edwards

Until I started performing in public, when at the end of the concert people would come to me with teary eyes and say that…

— Javed Ali

I started performing in college, but I wasn't writing a lot.

— Cole Swindell

I started performing opera when I was 10 years old. I didn't perform as Zola Jesus until I was probably 18.

— Zola Jesus

I love performing, it's my favourite thing to do. I think the music comes across even stronger live. I started performing first, before I…

— NAO

I started performing at home as a kid putting on shows and lip-syncing Michael Jackson for the grown-ups. Then, in musicals and plays in…

— Matisyahu

I started performing very young as a salsa dancer, and every time I was on that stage dancing, all I knew was that I…

— Gina Rodriguez