The absolute dependence of a newborn infant inspired many things in me, but it did not activate any magical knowledge about what to do for the next twenty years.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
After having my baby I felt like I'd been introduced to my life, I slowed down, I paid more attention to simple things, I addressed a few issues in my own life, I even got married, I looked at what was important and what wasn't, and so I used that experience for inspiration.
Before my first child was born, I had nothing going on professionally really, and it's been a very blessed period of creativity for me since he arrived. It's very surreal. It's almost as if the babies are out there pulling strings somewhere, deciding what kind of life they want to be born into.
I knew it was going to be the most extraordinary thing in my life, but how powerful it is, you can never know until you have a baby.
I'm really obsessed with this idea that we're living in this environment where there's always magic around us that we are not perceiving.
I felt giving birth was the most creative act of all my creative acts - literally creation!
When our daughter was born, a light went on for me - there was more to life than what I was doing. It felt like being famous for being a paint salesman. It wasn't the dream I was sold on. I'd had enough of it.
The compulsively readable events of my life occurred mainly in infancy, and it's been pretty humdrum ever since.
My childhood gave me resilience - and there's little that can surprise me in life.
Anything I've done up till May 27th 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.
As a child, I was rather active for my age. Sensing something special about me, my father told me that I had the vision to accomplish great things in life. He always encouraged me to do what I wanted to do - and this has stood me in good stead.
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