I always wanted to be in a boy band since I was a kid.

Even in the band I was in when I was a kid, I'd be telling everyone what to do. I'd be leaning over the…

— James Murphy

Steven Adler and I played football in the street when we were 12. I remember rehearsing in my bedroom with my first band, and…

— Flea

My first band, Kid Wicked, we did half covers and half originals.

— Sebastian Bach

I had a rock and roll band as a kid. What I wanted to be in was a country band, but in Sandy Hook,…

— Keith Whitley

I was in the band when I was a kid, I played the trumpet.

— Drew Carey

“So this had been all I wanted, a boy who understood about I felt.”

— Sarah Dessen

My father wanted a boy badly and didn't get one, so I was happy to be the surrogate boy. I was very strong, always…

— Cornelia Parker

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a boy. I really had gender issues.

— Jane Lynch

When I was born I brought no joy, my father said he wanted a boy!

— Rodney Dangerfield

So this had been all I wanted, a boy who understood how I felt. Now, though, I sometimes wished for more.

— Sarah Dessen

“The Marquis had known whom he had wanted not to be, when he was a boy. He had definitely not wanted to be like…

— Neil Gaiman

When I was younger, yes, there was a part of me - and I wrote about that bit in Among the White Moon Faces…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Dad always wanted me to be a boy.

— Joey Heatherton

My mother always wanted a boy. My father never did.

— Joe Penny

I was crying a little for the boy I had wanted him to be and the boy he hadn’t turned out to be.

— Gabrielle Zevin