Johnny Cash Quotes

I'm ready to live on my own. It's a really big step, but I'm ready.

Once you move away from home, it's never quite the same again. You expect everything to be just as you left it, and it never is. It's almost the first step into adulthood, realising you've got to make your own way.

Like anyone who goes to college, you're leaving a familiar surrounding and a comfortable environment and your friends and everything, and you're starting fresh. It can be pretty daunting.

I moved from home in Scotland to home in WWE, and that was the first time being out on my own in my life.

At the age of 19, the day after I graduated high school, I moved to a place where it snowed, and I became a massage therapist. With this job, all I needed were my hands and my massage table by my side and I could go anywhere. For the first time in my life, I felt free, independent, and completely in control of my life.

Graduating high school was really emotional for me. I'd obviously made a huge thing out of what that experience was for me, and saying goodbye to it was very weird. So I had to be like, boom, onward and upward.

Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves.

Becoming an adult means leaving the world of your parents and starting to make your way toward the future that you will share with your peers.

I needed the time to go to college and spend years with people who aren't in the business and become a person on my own in order to be the person that I am and the performer that I am. I wouldn't give that up to be in blockbusters or have more money.

I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free.

Being single has definitely given me a new lease of life.

I'm on my own now. I have my own apartment.

There may be some difficulties during a period of adjustment. Specifically, picking up their life again and making their own truly independent decisions.

Graduate school is a really supportive environment, but in a way, it was only when that support vanished that I flourished.

College and the responsibilities that came with it helped me transition from teenager to adulthood.

I moved to L.A. right after I finished high school, for three years, because everybody was telling me it was important to get down there, and then I kind of just decided for myself that I didn't need to be there to be doing this. I wanted out of some of the chaos that comes with living here and being an actor.

I have a pretty good family. But ever since I was little, I just felt like I wanted to be on my own. It was the same thing about school.

From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way.

A lot of these people were getting to where they didn't need help anymore. You have to start all over again.

Twenty is a tough age because it slips past in the middle of so much else - university, gap year, leaving home, getting jobs.

I think a lot of your 20s is trying to figure out who you are - you're on your own; you've got you first job. You've got your first apartment. You're living away from your parents. You're just discovering who you are.

But I think a lot of guys need to branch off from home for a while so you can figure everything out, learn how to take care of off-the-court issues so when you do go back home if you decide to, the transition would be easier.

When you're 16 and when you're 17, you're kind of walking that fine line of being an adult and legally being able to look out for yourself, while being able to look out for yourself and being treated as a child.

I've been a protected child, but I moved out for further studies when I was 16, and I have travelled quite a bit by myself.

I lived at home until I was 23.