Jacob Artist Quotes

My parents were big movie-musical fans. And I thought 'Grease' was different from the usual MGM musical. I was intrigued and fell in love with it.

I used to sing songs from musicals all the time as a kid.

When I watch 'Glee', it reminds me of my upbringing.

To me the thing with 'Grease' was that it was the first movie that as a kid I wanted to get up and do what they were doing.

'Grease' was how I learned that I really liked music and musicals and movies that included music.

When I was growing up, there were so many musicals you could watch. I like the fantasy of musicals and I love music.

I love romance. It goes back to the films I watched as a kid.

'The Secret Garden' was the first musical that I fell in love with when I was a kid. My mom took me to see it, and it was the first one that I owned the soundtrack to and listened to over and over again.

'Power Rangers' has changed a lot of lives.

I love Tinkle, it's really the most fun I've had in years.

I grew up on films.

I owe a lot to Nickelodeon.

I love that song 'I Could Have Danced All Night' from 'My Fair Lady' so much. I love that song because watching it as a kid, it was such an unbridled expression of joy.

Even as a kid, I'd have a recorder, and I'd lean it up against a TV and record 'I Love Lucy.' I loved hearing the audience laughing. It was really exciting to me.

I love 'Les Mis' so much, like, since I was younger; I saw it when I was like, you know, 10, and I've seen it almost 18 times.

I love the magic of movies and television, and I always have since I was kid.

My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.

I love comics. I like to do everything I used to do when I was 14-years-old.

I first fell in love with comedy when I'd visit my granny as a kid. Trips to her house meant staying up late drinking Coca-Cola and watching 'Saturday Night Live'.

I think it's also safe to say genre TV and movies were a big influence - the first stories I ever tried to write were Godzilla fan fiction when I was in elementary school, complete with elaborate maps of Monster Island made with multiple sheets of typing paper and nearly six feet wide. I kind of wish I still had those.

I used to be addicted to 'Reader's Digest' growing up. I would read the stories about love, and I guess that's where I became a hopeless romantic. I draw from that a lot.

If I go to a restaurant, or if I'm at an airport and people recognize me, it amazes me that most of them know me from 'Grease.'

'The King and I' - one of the first films I ever saw.

I've always been optimistic. And I have a feeling that it happened because of going to all those movies with my grandmother in the '40s because there was no cynicism.

It's a phenomenon how 'Grease' is so popular; it really is.