Donny Osmond
Donny Osmond
Donny Osmondis an American singer, actor, dancer, radio personality, and former teen idol. Osmond has also been a talk and game show host, record producer and author. In the mid-1960s, he and four of his elder brothers gained fame as the Osmonds. Osmond went solo in the early 1970s, covering such hits as "Go Away Little Girl" and "Puppy Love"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth9 December 1957
CityOgden, UT
CountryUnited States of America
You always draw from your roots. I'm influenced by everything I hear and see, and that includes music today, but obviously I go back to my early influences: Stevie Wonder, Parliament, Earth, Wind & Fire, Ohio Players, Average White Band. Those kind of artists are what I look to. When I hear that stuff on the radio, I turn it up!
You know, I always wondered what it would have been like to just go to school, play football with the guys and go to the prom. Just like a 'regular person.'
Thank goodness I had a great family growing up, a great foundation. But I will say my faith, my parents, my family, all that stuff is very, very important. And I'll say that until the day I die.
The world produces enough food to feed the entire population. It's a travesty that anyone should go hungry anywhere.
Love can be so heartless when you turn out the light, a mutual surrender in the heat of the night.
Well, unless you've suffered from panic attacks and social anxiety disorders, which is what I was diagnosed as having, it's hard to explain it. But you go on stage knowing you're actually physically going to die. You will keel over and die.
I could play it safe by recording songs that are familiar, but am I expanding myself as an artist by doing covers? It's a catch-22. It's called show business: The word 'business' is in it, and you've got to be a businessman. But then again, you have to be true to yourself as an artist.
You're as good as anyone else is, if you're good. You're no less important than anyone else is in the grand scope of things.
Yes, I have my standpoint, but I try to follow the life of Christ and he was very non-judgmental. It's not my position to judge. It's God's position to judge.
I got fitter when I did 'Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.' I wore a loincloth - that's a lot of motivation!
I go to bed late. My mind starts going at night - that's when those creative juices begin flowing.
I don't have a lavish lifestyle with expensive cars.
Our father taught us such a work ethic that if there's something worth doing, it's worth doing well.
I don't want my album coming out with a 'G' rating. Nobody would buy it.