Beats Quote by Stephen Gaghan

I grew up poor in crappy situations... various crappy situations. What kept me sane was reading and music. I had so many different literary…

— Corey Taylor

I grew up in San Francisco. My parents were not hippies; they were writers. They were very active politically, but on the intellectual side,…

— Winona Ryder

I did not grow up in the 70s but in the 80s in the Bay Area, the child of hippies in Berkeley, so I…

— Marielle Heller

I immersed myself in books and rock 'n' roll, the adolescent salvation ...

— Patti Smith

Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of following the…

— Cameron Crowe

I grew up listening to the Beatles and being an ardent Beatles fan when I was in third grade all the way to adulthood,…

— Sandra Cisneros

I was influenced by the Beats because I actually just began to commit adolescence around 1955, when "Howl" and Rebel Without a Cause and…

— Billy Collins

I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop -…

— Idina Menzel

I grew up in a household listening to hip-hop music.

— Candace Owens

It wasn't until I was in my teens that I started admiring writers as inspirations for my own work, and my earliest influences there…

— Kelley Armstrong

I grew up watching different kinds of shows and films and read so many different authors.

— Sanya Malhotra

When I was 13 and looking for my identity, I was obsessed with hippies.

— Kerli