Quotes About Childhood

From the time I was very young, I was a professional, making money and assuming responsibilities. I didn't live the life of a child. I was living the life of a 30-year-old.

I do think kids should be kids. You have the rest of your life to be an adult.

My dad had me in Taekwondo when I was a kid, but I didn't retain much of that.

I grew up in New York, so I had a lot of access to all kinds of movies, and I would handwrite reviews of them on loose-leaf paper.

I've been lucky enough in my career to have opportunities to revisit things that meant a lot to me in childhood.

Remaking 'Karzzz' was like revisiting childhood.

My father would make me stand on the table and make me sing. He would give me a P1 reward after every song.

I've been writing since I was five years old. I used to write poetry, and I loved to rhyme.

I was always playing with whatever I could get under my hands, making rhythm with it, which was natural for me, because my parents were listening to a lot of African music.

I was lucky to grow up in a family where your parents loved you no matter what you were or what you came out as, and a lot of kids don't have that ride.

When you're a kid, you don't know what's right and wrong, so you kind of just have to listen to what they tell you, and I'm just fortunate that I had people around me who knew what they were talking about.

I can gabble on now, but I couldn't when I was a kid, so I spent a lot of time in my own head on the moors by myself. It felt like writing was the right way to express myself.

But I was obsessed with 'Lord of the Rings' when I was little. It still is a Christmas tradition in my family. We all sit around and watch the three films together. That was it for me.

We were living in the Slad Road when my father left us. I was about three.

When I was a child, I longed to leave my parents and just roam about.

When I was eleven, my mother gave me Robert K. Massie's 'Nicholas and Alexandra.' It was the first 'grownup' book I read, and I loved it.

My favorite player, growing up, was David Robinson. He was really the first person that I actually knew about and actually watched.

I grew up in a family where my father was in a rock band, and I saw and heard every story.

For some reason, as a kid, I felt outwardly embarrassed to say that I liked rock music. I don't know where that came from. For me, it just wasn't cool - orchestral music was cool.

My parents didn't allow rock music in the house. I actually didn't even know it existed until I was probably eleven years old.

I had a very rocky, difficult, emotional childhood with my parents.

I've been obsessed with Romans since I was a child.

When I was a kid, I would sing in people's living rooms and for different little family things.

A lot of things come down to your roots and how you're brought up.