Quotes About Innocence

I can still picture myself riding in the back of a Bronco to a field party after a rainstorm. My mama will kill me for saying this, but my first beer, I was 15 and I didn't know what to do with it. I thought you were supposed to chug it. So I just downed the whole thing in one gulp. All my friends were like, 'Duuuuuuude!'

My first crush was Hayley Mills when I was a little kid in England. I used to kiss her picture goodnight.

I dig in the sand, and I play with pretty pictures, so I never really left kindergarten.

When you are little, you will draw pictures for no reason.

I love looking at pieces of art through the eyes of a child.

I built a fort when I was little, with pillows and blankets.

My music is like a baby pink frosted cake with sprinkles, but when you cut into it, there's a gooey, dark chocolate center.

My parents told me I'd point to a bed of flowers and say 'Pink. Pretty,' before I knew any other words.

For me, pink or lilac is the colour of innocence, it's the colour of love, it's the colour of everything happy.

Of course, watching 'Stand By Me' is, to me, the pinnacle of child performances in movies or shows. It doesn't get much better than that, and those kids, you feel like you know them instantly and they feel real.

We are all born artists. If you have kids, you know what I mean. Almost everything kids do is art. They draw with crayons on the wall.

In the garden of our house, when I was three. My brothers and I had a jumping wall. I remember it as enormously high, but it was probably only about a foot and a half.

My childhood bedroom had wallpaper that was printed with clouds and rainbows.

Remember how you used to be able to feel your bed breathing and the walls spinning when you were a kid?

I've always been painting, even as a little girl I was painting on the doors and walls of our house.

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

I was writing songs as a kid about leprechauns and Catwoman and teapots - whatever it is that little girls wanna sing about. The first song I wrote was called 'Kitten.'

I always want to have fun and be silly and be childish. I'm very childish. I am at my happiest when I am a child and I am just playing.

I never want to grow up.

I had the most magical childhood, running free and going anywhere I wanted to in my head.

I think everybody is born pure. You never go to the maternity ward and hold a baby that has bad energy.

The quality I most loved in Warhol - it was his sense of wonder. I mean, he was - absolutely everything was, 'Oh my God, isn't that wonderful!'. You know, and so it wasn't that he was cool and kind of calculated at all. He was very childlike.

'Happy Days' is the type of show that represents the best we can be. It's something warm, something tactile when life was good and life was simple.

I go down to my little hut, where it's tight and dark and warm, and within minutes I can go back to being six or seven or eight again.