Unstructured Childhood Quotes

I wasn't a bad kid. My dad left when I was young, so I didn't have much discipline, not that I'm making excuses. I was always out and about and had a good time as a kid, so I've done alright.

I had a lovely, feral, free childhood - out and then come back when you're hungry or it gets too dark. I feel slightly cruel that I'm not offering my children the same.

I never fully got to experience my childhood. I've spent a lot of time having to sort of grow myself up in many ways and also to sort of slow myself down and allow myself to live at the pace that I am.

I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school.

I grew up in a bubble. I just watched TV. I thought that's what you were supposed to do in life: sing and dance and act.

I have great parents, and they both taught me great things, but my formative years were boundaryless.

I grew up in Nova Scotia, so there weren't a whole lot of rules.

I grew up with too much freedom. You can't define yourself.

My parents didn't care very much what I did, and that was probably a blessing.

Obviously I was well aware that I had what people consider a privileged upbringing. My mom was never a bake-cookies sort of mom. I really had no reins whatsoever.

I had a very free childhood and ranged around on my bicycle the way boys do. I had few restrictions.

Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased.

I was always with a single mom, and we never had schedules or anything. We were just Bohemian, us against the world, which was kind of great, but it certainly didn't breed security. I've gotten hyper-sensitive to schedules and bath time and eating at the dinner table. We don't just 'Bohemian' go out at nine o'clock and go get Chinese food.