All musicians need a day job in the beginning. Unless they still live with their parents, I guess. I'm just lucky that my day job is simply another form of art.
My parents were always supportive of me in terms of expressing myself artistically. Art, musical instruments, singing - whatever I did, they were just really supportive.
Growing up, I found I was good at two things: Art and Math. To hear my parents say it, though, it was only, 'John is good at Math.'
That's what friends do: they notice things. They're there for each other. They see what parents don't.
We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents - the question is, how much?
I had a couple of friends in high school. And by a couple I mean my parents.
I think everyone's parents have secrets. You just have to know where to look for them.
...but maybe it's just the genetic code of a teenager. If your parents forbid something, you have to want it.
Flawed Human Parents + Shit Life Throws At You = Childhood That 'Builds Character.
You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.
A Jewish man with his parents alive is half the time a helpless infant!
I don't want to be memorized for everyone. I want to stay real,endless and inchangeable for my parents, kids and their descendants.
It was a soulless gaze, burning with a wild hatred that shouldn’t be there in anyone who could call themselves a parent.
What parent can give to their children is the gift of daily prayer.
One I built when I was a kid, and it was a real miniature of Disneyland. I fell in love with the park when I went there with my parents on my 12th birthday.
My parents screened 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory' for my 6th birthday, and I became fascinated by the idea of living in a candy land with chocolate rivers and lollipop trees.
Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.
Nobody until very recently would have thought that their husband was supposed to be their best friend, confidante, intellectual soul mate, co-parent, inspiration.
It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading is to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure.
Adoptive parents are taking on enormous responsibility, both emotionally and financially. Quite frankly, they need as much disclosure as possible about the child's background and health to assure the best fit and be prepared.
It's such a stress always trying to get bigger houses and larger cars and better schools. Of course, parents want to give their children the best opportunities in life, but sometimes that can stifle them.
