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My older brother, Jake, and I had a bohemian childhood. My parents are deeply unconventional people from the beatnik generation. They weren't married, and I thought that was normal. We called them by their first names.

— Rachel Kushner

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

My parents were very, very close; they pretty much grew up together. They were born in 1912. They were each other's only boyfriend and girlfriend. They were - to use a contemporary term I hate - co-dependent, and they had me very late. So they had their way of doing things, and they reinforced each other.

— Roz Chast

I was somewhat out of place among my classmates; I could not be as bohemian as they were.

— Erno Rubik

When I was born, my father named me Melissa, and I am still Melissa, but I got the nickname Lizzo around the time I was in the Cornrow Clique.

— Lizzo

I have brothers, and that so-called boyish quality was something that I was deathly self-conscious about when I was younger.

— Kristen Stewart

I grew up in a crazy, gypsy-like household of actors, dancers and loony Broadway people. It was their way of life, and I didn't know anything else.

— James Badge Dale

I have a bunch of brothers. I grew up with a big family.

— Taylor Kinney

I was a tomboy and I didn't have a bunch of brothers but I always wanted them and so I sort of adopted a few of my great friends to be my brother.

— Olivia Wilde

I'm a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all and became a bohemian.

— Brigitte Bardot

✗Opposing Perspectives

When I talk about my artist parents, people imagine a bohemian environment and think, 'Aha, so that's where he gets it from!' But we were as white, straight, and middle-class as the next family on our white, straight, middle-class housing estate.

— David Mitchell

I remember that I used to mix with my friends who had brothers and sisters. I was an only child.

— Keith Emerson