Growing up Quote by Tim Pool

I grew up in a very strict household, where secular music was forbidden.

— Shannon Bream

I knew I wanted to write on religious themes when I was a GI in World War II. I saw and experienced so much…

— Dave Brubeck

I was raised in a conservative Christian household. We weren't even allowed to watch 'secular' television, anything that was deemed not proper for Christians.

— Matt Bomer

Most of the music I grew up listening to was not Christian music, although I definitely had a lot of that at home, too.

— Marc Martel

My religious upbringing was comically strict — even the Dirt Devil vacuum cleaner was banned. In our house, no one was allowed to refer…

— Katy Perry

I actually grew up listening to music as like - church music and stuff like that.

— Cupcakke

I was raised by parents who really admired the religious leaders of the left, as many 60s and 70s liberals did.

— Dar Williams

My music was too religious for the rock and roll stores and too rock and roll for the religious stores.

— Larry Norman

When I visited Africa to make my film 'Music by Prudence,' I was struck by how intensely religious and socially conservative Africans were. There…

— Roger Ross Williams

“There’s no stronger bulwark of sound conservatism than the evangelical church, and no better place to make friends who’ll help you to gain your…

— Sinclair Lewis

“Up until the mid-eighties, there was always a shared assumption that the Right controlled the currency of outrage; part of what made conservatives “conservative”…

— Chuck Klosterman

There's a track called 'Why Not Nothing' about how the world's turning so conservative and so religious at the same time. I think it's…

— Richard Ashcroft