Quotes About Upbringing

I was born and raised in the Westboro Baptist Church, an infamous congregation started by my grandfather, and consisting almost entirely of my extended family.

The boy taught from infancy to be tough is emotionally doomed.

As a kid, I loved Paula Poundstone and Richard Pryor. But my mother was a huge influence on my comedy.

People always ask about my dad and his comedic influence. It's funny because my mom is really the comedian of our household.

I think you get a lot of influence from what your parents play around you. So I always loved country, R&B and rock.

My parents were definitely the biggest influence in my life.

Who knows what would have become of me, if my parents had not had their influence on me.

I've always had gender confusion. I had two older brothers, and I've been predominantly male influenced. I really always looked up to my dad, really always looked up to my brothers... I had a lot of male friends growing up. It didn't help that in my town, where I lived, there were no female musicians.

From the spiritual came the blues, gospel, and rhythm-and-blues. I heard all of that music growing up, and that has influenced how I approached classical music. I'm sure of it.

I am from the country, and I grew up mostly influenced by country music.

I was influenced by a lot of comedy growing up, I had good parents. They were funny, too. My mom was hilarious; my dad was hilarious. I guess being at home around the environment was just a good stage to get started.

As a child, you are influenced by your parents' actions.

Growing up and playing guitar with my dad and stuff like really influenced me. It definitely must've had an impact on why Miley wanted to sing and why I wanted to sing and play guitar as well.

My earliest influences were things I heard in my household.

I had a lot of very religious influences - Christian religious.

I didn't grow up with musical influences in my family.

My parents are kind of young, and my dad always listened to rock music and stuff like that, so I sort of grew up around that. As far as acting goes, I didn't really have any major influences because it wasn't really something that I focused on.

I have a lot of brothers and male cousins. I grew up in an informal, jokey environment.

As with most people, my ideology and my attitudes about life were informed by parents and family.

It's funny: being green to me was ingrained because my parents were always trying to save money, save water, turn off the lights, or arrange a carpool. I don't think my parents even know what it means to be green, but they were.

I grew up in a household where both my brothers had Type 1 Diabetes, so I was raised eating healthy food with healthy ingredients.

I mean, when you grow up in the inner city and you grow up in a single-parent household, that's - those are humbling times, you know?

I'm an inner city man, born and bred.

I've always been very insecure and had a lot of self-doubt growing up. That was partially because of how I was raised.