I was 19 when I wrote ‘Dreams,’ and that would have been when it started to happen. The band got signed, and I was probably beginning to see different things besides my small town of Ballybricken.
Having children, entering the realm of parents and parenthood, changes our relationship to the world in ways we could not have anticipated and might not have signed up for. Before I had children, for example, I believed strongly in the nobility of suffering.
I play the game and I understand what’s going to happen; you get banged up. But you signed up for it.
My backpack is signed by three members of The Doors. I did a song with Robby Kreiger, John Desmore, and Ray Manzarek. I made my dream come true.
Look, half the men who signed the Declaration of Independence were either in debt or bankrupt. The remaining half, most of them lost all their possessions. The only reason Monticello didn’t get burned to the ground was that the British patrol missed the road.
Our veterans made a commitment to our country when they signed up.
Apollo Records signed me for my gospel ability.
In the early 1990s, I was signed as a singer to the same label as Robyn. She was in her early teens, and I was in my twenties, so we didn’t hang out, but our paths crossed so many times that we slowly got to know each other and became friends.
My dad always wanted me to be a cricketer, study no chance. Once he saw that I was quite good for my age, no school. So, as soon as I did my GCSEs, I got signed by Warwickshire at 15.
When I was training before I was even signed, I was listening to the Damian Marley CD ‘Welcome to Jamrock,’ and I got the idea one day in promo class to cut a promo in a Jamaican accent and everybody in the class went wild. That was the character I played from that point on and it kind of stuck until it didn’t.
Later on, when I signed with Sony, we wanted to re-release ‘Fade’ as ‘Faded’ with a brand new mix and with vocals by Iselin Solheim. I think Iselin was the first person who sung demo vocals for ‘Faded.’ And it worked out great! The way I got in touch with Iselin was through a guy that I work with in the studio.
Every musician in the known universe has signed a bad piece of paper, myself included. But it’s really very simple. You’re the artist. It’s your picture that’s going on the CD cover, nobody else’s. Protect yourself. Get a good lawyer. You’ll kick yourself later if you don’t.
I remember Yash Chopra ji had called me for a narration. I was preoccupied with other films and couldn’t take up the offer as many of the projects I had signed on were already on floors and filmmakers were fighting for my dates. Well, the film was ‘Darr,’ which later went to Shah Rukh Khan and shaped his career.
I was thin and didn’t realize how small I was – I was, like, 96 pounds when I got signed. You don’t want to be 96 pounds. It’s not attractive. I didn’t know how to do my hair and makeup. I was such a tomboy.
My tryout match for WWE was against Kofi. I was unsigned, and then I got signed by working the dark matches. I wrestled with Kofi in my first TV match at Deep South Wrestling. We’ve done single matches, tag matches, all the way to producing.
I signed for Reading and then West Ham where people called me ‘The Invisible Man’ or a ‘poster’ because I was on the bench for three months. I turned down opportunities to go on loan because I’d achieved everything I wanted in the Championship.
I almost never pitch myself. Me being an independent producer, never having a manager and never being signed, I pretty much just did my own thing: go out and search for the new talent, and when the new talent blows up, it just kinda brings everyone else to me.
In fighting, when someone’s signed up to fight me, I’m not humble. I’ve never been humble.
Back in 2004 I trained at an independent wrestling school and performed in front of crowds of around 200, then I got signed to a contract with the WWE to continue my development.
And I thought my loss my loss was not, certainly, the end of the world, but to lessen the enthusiasm of those young people who were signed up, I thought that was tragic.
I was in a situation where I was a West Coast artist signed to an East Coast label.
I think Hallmark is doing this really exciting thing right now, where they buy a series of books, they’re books for young adults, or adolescents, and they’re really fun Agatha Christie-style mysteries. I actually signed on for three of them.
That Stash Kobe 1, that is probably my number 1 shoe I have ever worn on the court. To wear it against Kobe in his last game against the Suns it was real fun, and for him to say something to me about them it is crazy. He is signed them up for me and personalized it. It was pretty dope.
And just when we were at the end of our design process there was the news that the Italian government and the U.S. government had signed an agreement to fly the first Italian astronaut on that flight.
I was 18, at art school, and saw this cute boy playing banjo. I was obsessed. I taught myself how to play. I listened to a lot of country and just messed around. The second song I wrote on the banjo was ‘Good to Be a Man.’ That what’s got me signed.
When I was signed to Quincy Jones before I went independent, he told me to rap what you know, and people will forever feel you. And I stuck to that, no matter how many people called me a devil worshiper, no matter how many people call me a cult leader. I stuck with rapping about what I know.
Once you’re signed to a label you compromise.
When I got to Scotland, I signed up on a site called Meetup. It’s like these group things you can do – a poetry reading, a hike, whatever.
Sometimes I have signed blank contracts.
I had started modelling and doing ramp shows. Then I signed the ‘Kama Sutra’ campaign. Overnight I became known as this sexy, hot chick.
One of the first groups we signed was the Fifth Dimension.
For me, it’s always been a financial kind of scenario. I was actually the first one who signed the ‘exclusive to Ring of Honor’ contract. I was the first guy who ever signed one of those contracts. That was tough for me because I had no one to talk to. I had no examples to go on. I was the guinea pig.
When I signed up for Google Plus, my reaction after playing around with it for a little bit was like, ‘Huh, I think Facebook should be scared.’ In part, because it’s a really elegant product. It’s very fast.
When I signed the license, I thought the media wasn’t going to pick up on it if I used my real name, Nicholai Hilton.
When I signed for Vancouver, it was funny because my mom didn’t really want me to move away. She was concerned about all my schooling.
When I signed with WWE and moved to Orlando, my wife and my two kids came with me.
The main thing is we never dissolved our Gang Starr contract. We are still signed to each other. We never disbanded the group. If Guru really wanted to super-dead it he would have said, ‘Yo, I want out.’ And I still would have tried to convince him to stay. We are still Gang Starr.
Even in something surreal like ‘Father Ted,’ everything has to logically follow, everything has to lead one to another. The moment the logic of a situation doesn’t work then you might as well not bother because people have signed out.
Prior to getting signed, I did a handful of like, small independent events around the area. I did a pre-show kind of match in exchange for helping set up the ring, setting up chairs and stuff like that.
Good players should be signed and in our league.
I feel rejected in France. And do you know why I signed for Bayern when I could have gone anywhere? Because they made me feel wanted.
I have had so many fine moments in Naples, but the first that comes to mind is when I signed the contract. I immediately loved this city and these wonderful people.
Somebody will come on TV singing, and you’re like, ‘Oh my God! I mean, they suck! You know, who signed them?’ Well, it’s just because she’s good lookin’, or it’s because he’s takin’ his shirt off and he’s muscley or something, or else he wouldn’t have gotten his chance.
I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.
The day I signed up to ‘Made In Chelsea’ at 19, I gave my life over. I think about that often. I was on the show for about four years.
And when you asked why I signed with AEW, that’s what I saw, was chance for a new future and everything has been extremely cool with me in AEW so far.
In Ukraine as well as in Brazil, Manchester City is now considered one of the best teams in the world, and after I signed, people back home in Brazil congratulated me for signing for one of the top teams in the world.
This idea that once you get into politics… you are now signed up for lifelong duty being in elective office, makes a fundamental error – and that is believing that the only way you can hold progressive views and implement them is in elective office.
As a kid, I wore the same Oakland A’s hat for like six or seven years. It was faded white and green. It was because I loved Barry Zito and he had signed that hat.
Obviously, it was a dream to get signed by WWE, and that, by itself, was huge for me.
In 1907, Britain and Russia signed a treaty dividing Iran between them; no Iranian was at the negotiations or even knew they were taking place.
When I signed for Barca, I knew their playing style was suited to my game.
