When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent.
People think I must have been so talented at an early age, but I don't know - was it talent or hard work? Who knows?
I was a pretty normal high school kid. I just loved to play sports and had opportunities, and the Lord blessed me with talent, and I just tried to take advantage of it.
I was an athlete when I was growing up.
In high school and college, I was an athlete.
Everybody has talent, it's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is.
I never knew if I had any talent when I started in this business.
I was born into a family of gospel singers. My early ambitions were many. I was going to be a ballerina. I almost had that one come true until I tore a tendon, so I transferred from my toes to my throat and that's where the talent settled.
At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it.
I don't know if I discovered I had any talent. It was dogged persistence. I had to have the music.