I had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I'm a grown-up my little-boyness has exploded out of me. I've lived my life backwards.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Maybe I didn't have the childhood people think you should have, but I still went through the ages; I was still a child.
All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself.
I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.
One of the things I loved about my childhood was that I didn't feel like I lost my innocence too young, like some children these days.
What we did in our childhoods makes us who we are now.
Well, most grown-ups forget what it was like to be a kid. I vowed that I would never forget.
You know, as an only child, you're kind of in a bubble, and there are all sorts of things about my childhood that I still can't really place.
I don't remember being a child, and that's why I think I'm so child-like now in my unending curiosity and approach to life.
Unlike most other children, - especially unlike those of today - who are eager to become men and women as speedily as possible, I had a terror of growing up, which became more and more accentuated as I grew older.
I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.