Quotes About Upbringing

Being the 8th out of 10 kids, and being the one that stayed in trouble, I sort of became a momma's boy.

I grew up in a house that had a whole lot of trouble. As much trouble as you could imagine.

I've always had trouble with male authority figures because my father was such a martinet.

I remember there were two tapes that my papa had in his truck at all times when I was younger. It was a Ralph Stanley gospel cassette and the 'Hee Haw' gospel album.

My dad was a musician, it was just what he did, like another guy's dad drives a meat truck. Our house was normal. We weren't taken with the fact our dad was a musician.

My father drove a truck, and my mother was a school teacher. They wanted their children to go the traditional route: get good grades, go to college, get a job.

My parents both had eighth-grade educations. My mother had five kids by the time she was 23, and my father was a truck driver.

I grew up homeless, you know, lived in and out of U-Haul trucks and, you know, apartment houses, friends.

I grew up with a truck. My dad had one, so I like trucks.

Well, my sister played trumpet. Can you imagine having a sister blowing the trumpet around the house, Fred? And my brother, he played piano. Everybody was playing some kind of music, so it was natural for me to get into it.

My father was a very big musical influence on me. He was a trumpet player. And that's what I started with. Then, when I was 7, my parents introduced me to the piano.

Coming from where I come from, I didn't have the luxury of having a trust fund. Or money from generations. Or the luxury of hoppin' into the family business, you know?

My parents were brought up in families which believed theatre people weren't to be trusted. But they were nice people.

Growing up, there were not many people I trusted. There are stories for days about how my attitude was. A lot of it's true. A lot of it's not true.

I've never been really great at trusting anybody, just because of the way I grew up.

The truth is I was nicely brought up and taught not to show my rage even though it was building up inside.

The truth is we just have a normal life, because we do have a church where our children are growing up pastor's children. And we just try to keep it really normal.

I'm nice because, when I was growing up, so many people weren't nice to me, and I remember how that felt. And I don't want to make anyone else feel like that. I value nice.

I just have this deep kind of connection to reality of being like... in a way, I feel like a dock worker. I want to stay in connection with my dock-worker side, 'cause that's how I grew up.

I didn't have musical upbringing. I never listened to music growing up, thinking "I want to make my own music". I just listened to music for pleasure.

As an american, you're born aiming so high - boys want to play in the major leagues, girls want to be princesses. We're cultivating little champions. It's like the land of little champions.

When I started having kids, I thought, 'I don't want to do anything they can't watch.'

All decent parents want to do what's best for their children. The Chinese just have a totally different idea of how to do that.

If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.