I always wanted to be an actor. I was one of those lucky kids - or cursed kids - who always knew what he wanted to do.
When I was 8 years old, I was already very interested in music.
When I was seven, I saw 'Sister Act 2,' and I fell in love with the performing aspect of music.
They saw that it was a passion of mine from really young... My parents did a good job. They wanted me to win. They let me do all these things. If some old guy came to the house asking, 'I want your kid to sign a contract,' they were so open to it. Yeah, I credit them loads.
There I was as a kid: a closeted homosexual who wants to be an actress. I had no choice! Wanting to act was something I was wired with when I was born. I never thought I would have success or celebrity, although I did want that. But what I wanted more than anything was to work.
The idea of choosing something that you want to be, that you identify as, at a young age and pursuing that without question - for me that was acting.
I was one of those weirdos who, at six years old, was telling everybody that I wanted to be an actor. I saw my sister in a play and realized that I wanted to play make believe in front of people; I was always goofing around and putting on shows for my family.
When I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat on my mother's hundred-pound, black-and-white-screen laptop. The story came about largely because I liked the way the word 'goat' looked on the page, but I decided then and there that I wanted to be a writer. That desire never changed.
From when I was really young one of the first things I did was to perform and do shows. It was like a natural instinct.
Before singing, I was acting. I was always more into acting than singing. It was the first thing I always wanted to do.
I've always thought of myself as a singer, even when I was a child.
I knew I loved football before I even played it. Uh, but the first time I stepped out on the field playing for the Lakeshore Redskins, I knew that I loved this game. I knew that this was something I wanted to do. And I was only 6 years old, but I loved it.
I wanted to write picture music ever since I was a kid.
When you're eight, you're not thinking about the future. But karting was always the big passion, the big love.
As far back as I remember, long before I could write, I had played at making stories. But not until I was seven or more, did I begin to pray every night, "O God, let me write books! Please, God, let me write books!"
When I was nine, I started doing ballet. That's when I knew that I was down to keep doing it.
When I was 7-years-old I, discovered Go-Karts and started Karting, since then I thought to be an F1 driver, that was pretty much buried into my head.
From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. Between the ages of about seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that I was outraging my true nature and that sooner or later I should have to settle down and write books.
The first time I knew what I wanted to do with my life was when I was about four years old. I was listening to an old Victrola, playing a railroad song...I thought that was the most wonderful, amazing thing...That you could take this piece of wax and music would come out of that box. From that day on, I wanted to sing on the radio.
I knew I wanted to act from a very young age - from about nine, really - but I didn't know how to go about it. I had no idea. The world was a much bigger place then.
When I was 14 and went on the stage for the first time, it stimulated me so much that I was convinced that I didn't want to do anything else.
The first thing I wanted to be was an actor, even before I wanted to be a singer, before I discovered I could sing.
I fell in love with music at 13-years-old. I wanted to be a singer at first and a drummer. Then I fell in love with rap music.
By the time I was 10 or 11, I knew I wanted to make films.
I grew up in Barranquila, Colombia, and I spent most of my childhood dreaming about becoming a singer.
