I got my way with my grandma. I used to get whoopings with my mom, but my grandma spoiled me. Read Summary
I wrote my first song in the first or second grade. Read Summary
I didn't know much about golf growing up. Read Summary
That great Cathedral space which was childhood. Read Summary
People ask 'do you make a conscious effort not to swear?' - if you're doing silly stuff you're not tempted to put swearing in. All the comics from my childhood, who were funny without swearing, were the people that influenced me. What I do is quite traditional anyway. Read Summary
People say I am stuck in childhood, but it's not that. I remember seeing a Matisse retrospective, and you could see he started out one way, and then he tried something different, and then he seemed to spend his whole life trying to get back to the first thing. Read Summary
I never really got nightmares from movies. In fact, I recall my father saying when I was three years old that I would be scared, but I never was. Read Summary
Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child. Read Summary
A lot of things you see as a child remain with you... you spend a lot of your life trying to recapture the experience. Read Summary
Whether you like it or not, a child really connects you to that time when everything's new. It's so important - not just for artistic endeavors, but for humanity. Read Summary
Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree. Read Summary
My mom didn't let me eat sugar or candy until I was older. Read Summary
The album that defined my childhood was probably Ella Fitzgerald's 'Greatest Hits,' whereas my half-sister, who didn't have the same conservative upbringing, was listening to Cash Money and crunk. Read Summary
My childhood landscape was not land but the end of the land - the cold, salt, running hills of the Atlantic. I sometimes think my vision of the sea is the clearest thing I own. Read Summary
I remember that as I was writing a poem on 'Snow' when I was eight, I said aloud, 'I wish I could have the ability to write down the feelings I have now when I am little, because when I grow up, I will know how to write, but I will have forgotten what being little feels like.' Read Summary
When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child... eventually. Read Summary
A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder. Read Summary
I was like the class clown in school so I guess I would say I did like the attention. In church I did a lot of plays, my mother made me play characters, do a lot of drama and acting, trying to become someone else. So it helped me create who I am, to create Snoop Dogg. Read Summary
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection. Read Summary
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. Read Summary