I’m the keeper of the flame for Whitney Houston. She was the greatest… and I don’t want the world to forget that.
Most everything I do revolves around tae kwon do. That said, I like to be a typical girl and go shopping. I have three nieces and nephews that I like to hang out with. I’m also finishing my last semester at the University of Houston, where I’m majoring in childhood education.
Since ‘Houston Kid,’ I’ve got a pretty good track record. Before that, I wrote some hit songs, but I didn’t come into my own until I was about fifty. Before that, I had bursts of talent.
Houston’s one of the most diverse urban areas in the entire country, and most people here are really proud of that.
You know, the funny thing was that I grew up listening to, like Whitney Houston and Cece Winans, and a lot of American singers.
I honestly played the best football of my life in Houston.
The Houston Astros are an organization I really respect and they have a lot of great players.
I was doing gigs at 16, belting out all the big ballads like Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey.
I think the problems with being older come when your body cannot do what your mind wants. Then, Houston, we have a problem.
I loved Michael Jackson and Madonna. I styled my hair like Whitney Houston.
Enron Field in Houston, the Trans World Dome in St. Louis and PSINet Stadium in Baltimore are just three of the modern-day coliseums named for companies that have found new homes in bankruptcy court.
When Houston called, I was like, ‘I think this could be a great fit.’
I don’t feel like I sound like anybody from Houston. I don’t really feel like I have that Houston flow, that Houston sound. I feel like it’s a mixture of all the things I’ve listened to growing up, or even my mom, in a way. I feel like I have my own style.
I was named first-team Jersey Shore by the Asbury Park Press, the paper I used to deliver as a young boy. I got to Houston and Coach Williams invited me to walk on the golf team. I was the 18th man on an 18-man golf team.
It’s easy to forget, given her scandal-tinged life and tragic death, how incredibly talented Whitney Houston was. She holds the world record as the most-awarded female act of all time, with over 415 major recognitions during her career. She is the only artist to chart seven consecutive number one songs.
I have a gut instinctive feeling that I will be as massive as Madonna, as massive as Michael Jackson… Whitney Houston, sure.
What if Whitney was at her top, and we brought in a name like Whitney Houston, it would sell.
And when I went to Houston, they had a conditioning coach by the name of Gene Coleman. And that was the first time I had gone to an organization that had a program with a weight room and designed specifically for pitchers.
As an insecure adult in Houston, a writer struggling to make myself heard, I was nourished by those hours with the Houston Rockets in ways that I did not recognize.
Houston’s been getting flooded for a very long time. We always have to prepare for disasters and we have to do this in a very bipartisan way.
I’d rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston.
What I don’t like – and I’m concerned about – as a Houstonian is that the SEC is starting to own Houston… There’s more talk about the SEC than there is the Big 12.
I was born on the island of Singapore, and I grew up there until I was 11 years old, when I was forcibly removed by my dad and planted into suburban Houston. I was in shock for the first year and then began to really love it – but didn’t love it quite enough to stay.
I went to a school called Chapman University, which is a wonderful film school. It was a great program, but it was very white, and it was a culture shock for me because I grew up in Houston, Texas, and I went through what they call magnet schools, so my friends were like a Benetton ad.
I’m a competitor. I want the ball when it matters. But I came to Houston because I wanted to play with Chris Paul (a guy I’ve been close with since we were kids) and James Harden.
In New York, I have a photo of my parents on their wedding day in 1947. They’re beaming at home plate in Houston’s Buffalo Stadium. I love the photo because my dad is smiling. He didn’t smile much in his later years.
There are a lot of historical lofts in Houston, and it’s amazing for me that a lot of them were built in the 1920s. I love the exposed bricks and the very industrial stuff.
In Houston everyone owns guns and uses ’em – sometimes just for the hell of it.
If the money’s equal between the Rockets and Mavericks, I think players are picking Houston. Every time.
The University of Houston is a program that should have national relevance.
I’m still an English professor at Rice University here in Houston. They’ve been very generous in letting me on a very long leash to just work on ‘The Passage’ and its sequels.
I was heavily influenced by big voices when I was younger. People like Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin, and Patti Labelle really spoke to me. When I got older, I was into Erykah Badu, Jill Scott, and Lauryn Hill, but it wasn’t until I started working with a voice coach that I really dove into jazz music.
Houston has always showed me love. The city has been there to support me.
I got my name in the hat for 2019 Mayor of Houston, Texas.
Havin’ fun while freedom fightin’ must be one of those lunatic Texas traits we get from the water – which is known to have lithium in it – because it goes all the way back to Sam Houston, surely the most lovable, the most human, and the funniest of all the great men this country has ever produced.
I love jazz and pop rock and country. I grew up listening to Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Def Leppard, AC/DC, Anne Murray – if I hear something really great… I want to be a part of it.
My mum liked gospel and R&B, Chaka Khan, and Whitney Houston.
I’ve had offers to sign a record deal, but the people I’ve talked to have wanted to package me and have me meet with songwriters who’ve written stuff for Whitney Houston, that sort of thing. That’s not at all my style.
I’ve had dinner with two Beatles and a Rolling Stone;I’ve said ‘hello’ to Whitney Houston and shared a cab with Larry Adler.
I grew up in a town called Prairie View. It’s like 45 minutes outside of Houston.
I would love to play, perhaps not exactly Mimi in ‘Rent,’ but someone like her. Perhaps not on Broadway, but I think I feel like a musical is in my future. I sing, although I’m not Whitney Houston up in here. I’m a little bit shy about my singing, but I did it in school at Juilliard.
I came to Houston for a job, the reason most people move halfway across the country with a first grader and a five-week-old. I came here to teach at Rice.
I’m born and raised in Houston, Texas, but Wisconsin is always going to be a home for me, and I’ll always be back.
Covering the civil-rights movement was a mind- and eye-opener for me. Houston was a segregated society, as was Texas as a whole – some of it by law, a lot of it by fear and tradition. But there was no violence where I lived, and if there was hate, it was either concealed from me or I just didn’t recognize it.
I think my failures in Houston is what made me who I am. I think it’s given me that drive, that drive to keep working, because you never know what can happen type deal.
Wes Anderson grew up in Houston, and he and I talk about Manhattan in similar ways, as a kind of fantasy world.
I happen to represent Enron here in Houston. We have many good corporate citizens here in Houston. Enron happened to have been one.
When she connected, I didn’t see Whitney Houston’s face. I just felt an energy, the energy of a woman who was interested in connecting with her former husband and had a message to deliver.
Houston is a place where you have to be the best. Everybody gotta be flashy, flashy. It’s not like a gaudy thing, but people definitely put on their best dressed even if they go into Wal-Mart.
Houston is a dynamic, international city shaped by leaders who dreamed big and acted with an eye firmly focused on the long term.
Although becoming a singer was my plan A after first hearing Whitney Houston when I was 17, I started off with plan B by going to the teacher-training college that my dad went to. It was a slow coming of age.
I’m really proud of what we are building at the University of Houston, and hope I spend the rest of my career here.
At 15, saying I wanted to do a reggae album after growing up in a snazzy house in Houston – it was kind of random.
Me being in Houston, I wanted to leave there because it was only known for one thing. That’s why I hit N.Y.; that’s why I hit L.A. That’s why I hit Paris, London. I just picked up basically everything, but I morphed it into what Travi$ Scott is and into what I know is fresh.
I love how confident she is, plus we also come from the same hometown, Houston, Texas. Her name is Beyonce Knowles. I love her so, so, so much. I love how hard she works.
I’m not like Stephanie Mills or Whitney Houston with actual hits. My fans think everything I did was a hit.
Im from Tomball: Tomball, Texas. Its a small town on the northwest side of Houston. I dont think it’s as country as people make it seem. It’s actually growing. But don’t go there without me, man, because they’ll take your shoes and all of that.
