Quotes About Childhood

Social immobility is driven by family background, instability in childhood and often by parents who don't know how to give children the right start in life.

You know, when I was little, I actually did want to be an actor. But I only wanted to play myself. So Instagram is sort of perfect for me.

But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me.

I saw the bombs, and, like a kid, I looked back at them. Instantly there was fire everywhere.

My entire childhood was a sacrifice: I was in and out of institutes until I was 17. Art has given me a chance to catch up on the years that I lost.

I got my first instrument at Christmas when I was three or four. My dad and mom got me a mandolin. It was the only instrument that fit me because I was so small. I went straight from that into drums when I was six and then started playing guitar when I was seven or eight.

The accordion was the first instrument I played, when I was 7 years old.

I started writing when I was around 6. I say 'writing,' but it was really just making up stuff! I started writing and doing my own thing. I didn't really know what a demo was or anything like that, so I started getting interested in studio gear and started learning about one instrument at a time. My first instrument was an accordion.

There was always a guitar hanging around the house when I was a kid. It was a much lower impact instrument than me playing the drums, which is what I really wanted to do. My mother put a stop to the drumming.

I started off playing the harmonium and singing. By the time I was eight or so, my interest moved to Western instrumental music.

I started playing mandolin when I was three or four years old because I was too small to be playing guitar. As I got older and more responsible with holding instruments, I was allowed to play my mom's guitar that she had.

Every Christmas, all I ever wanted was Playskool instruments. It was my entire life. And then by the time I was 6 or 7 years old, it became, 'Now I'm going to force my entire family to watch me perform all these rock songs.'

I would sing around the house, and I would always play on things just because instruments were always there, but I didn't show any genius as a child. I wasn't a prodigy or anything like that.

I love the camera and I guess it's because it's been an integral part of my childhood.

I had intelligent, high-minded, liberal parents who wanted to make sure my values were just like theirs.

I've never sat down with the intent of trying to shock or anything like that; it just so happens that the sense of humour I enjoyed watching as a kid is the type of humour I try to emulate as an adult. It's not a decision. It might sound a bit wanky, but it's the truth.

Ever since my childhood days in Kolkata, where I was born, I had seen my father interacting with Congressmen.

People think I have an interest in comics, but I'm only interested in comics from the '40s, like 'Donald Duck' comics.

What interests me is what children go through while growing up.

I loved books; I read my childhood away. I was more interested in my interior world.

When I was a kid, I was the one causing the problems, and my little sister was the intermediary. But I think in life, generally, I don't want drama. I'd so much rather do something goofy.

Now, I was one of those kids who grew up privy to both his parents' secrets, who acted as the intermediary between them and eased their estrangements: that was my function in the household.

I was six or seven and an interpreter.

We await the successsive births in the soul of the child. We give all possible material, that nothing may lack to the groping soul, and then we watch for the perfect faculty to come, safeguarding the child from interruption so that it may carry its efforts through.