Roisin Murphy Quotes

I was living with my stepfather for a while, and then I moved out and went and lived on my own in Hastings-by-the-Sea from about 16.

They couldn't wait to get me out. My dad found my place, my mom helped me pack, and my brother was making architectural plans for my bedroom. It was just what you do at 18.

I moved out of home when I was 15.

By the time I turned 18, I moved into a little chalet of my own and felt very grown-up.

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 with my parents until I was 25.

Living by yourself, technically by yourself, at the age of 16 is not easy to do.

I have been away from home since I was 17.

I wrote 'Echo' a few months after moving out of my sister's apartment in Atlanta. I was 17 and just finished high school. I didn't go to prom and didn't walk the stage. I just dipped.

I moved to Los Angeles when I was about 20, all by myself. It was exciting. I had this moment when I felt like I needed to put on my big-boy pants and just make that leap to see what would happen.

Yeah, I left Idaho at 17. You know, I graduated high school a year early and just, you know, the typical story, packed up my car and moved out.

The myth that young people should leave the nest at 18, never to return, started with iconic American Benjamin Franklin.

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

I couldn't wait to get out, and at 14, I moved into a three-room Georgetown town house with Dad. I never went back. When they eventually sold the house, in 1984, Mom had a goodbye party for 'Merrywood.' I refused to go.

I looked at my parents when I was 17, and I said, 'I'm moving to L.A.'

I left home when I was just 17, finished up high school, and went to work.

I lived at home until I was 23.

This is the time it all starts, I'm telling you. Like, 16, I mean, forget it. You could just get beat up, you could go through these grueling schedules.

I left home to go to college, and then I moved back home. I moved back for three years from 21 to 24.

Through a huge duration of my life, someone has always picked up after me. And when you're on your own and you're trying to be independent, it's definitely different.

Sometimes you're a little too close for comfort, and I think anybody can relate to that, whether you're in college or just moving out on your own.

Sixteen is a hard time. A lot of kids are experimenting with things.

I was 14 when I moved into my own apartment. I was so scared. I didn't know anything.

I was wanting to be a kid at 18 instead of being a young woman.

The best holiday I ever had was the first one I went on without my parents, when I was 17.