I grew up in a very working-class family and also a very fundamentalist Christian family. So, we didn't have access to the arts in the house in any form other than the Sunday funnies.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I grew up in a very small, rural country town, and we didn't really have 'the arts.'
I grew up in a household that had its roots in church and community and culture and poetry and song and in the arts. Those aspects certainly shaped what I do.
I was exposed to the arts, but there was no one in my family who was an artist.
I didn't grow up in one of those restrictive Christian households where you couldn't do this or that. We were brought up with a great collection of good morals and good values, but we also had fun. We'd go to church on Sunday, but then have ice cream, roller skate or play in the park afterwards.
I grew up in a modern home, but my grandmother lived across the street in an old house that was built when churches were illegal in Mexico. She had a chapel in the home, right between the kitchen and dining room.
We weren't allowed to have secular music in the house growing up. I was home-schooled, and gospel was the only choice we had.
I didn't belong to the sort of family where the children's classics were laid on. I went to the public library and read everything I could get my hands on.
I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house.
My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts.
My mother and father were interested in the arts.