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The thing you realize as you get older is that parents don't know what the Hell they're doing and neither will you when you get to be a parent.

Parents are in denial a lot of the time - everybody knows what they did as a teenager, but somehow, when they grow up, it all disappears.

At some point, you realize your parents are human. They make the best decisions they can with the options available to them.

It triggers something in you as a human being because you forget what your parents did for you. But when you become a parent, you're like, 'Whoa! It's hard work.' No wonder your parents always tell you off! They've done a lot for you.

When you are born into a family like mine, you don't really know anything else. But you quickly realise that it's more about other people and how they are dealing with it. Some can be hugely in awe or uncomfortable, but to you, your parents are just your parents.

Parents don't understand kids and kids don't understand parents. My parents were divorced when I was really young and I went to live with my dad.

If you are going through something with one of your parents, you know that there is this feeling inside you constantly that something is wrong. Even if you want to pretend that it doesn't matter to you or you don't care, the truth of the matter is that you do, because they are your parents and you love them.

My parents are really well intended, and I think their way of dealing with things is denial and guilt. Nobody wanted to talk about it. But all I did was blame myself.

I think my parents did a great job of reminding me that I wasn't as big a deal as maybe I thought I was at times.

Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.