Theo Von Quotes

I have a little boy, and I wanted to spend a lot of time with him.

The thing about having a very young mother who had you at 20 is that you expect that you're going to be old ladies together.

When I was young, one Sunday every month or so, my mom would load my brothers and me into our station wagon and drive 80 miles north to Orange County, where we'd meet our extended family at a Persian restaurant for lunch.

I basically grew up on the road with my dad, on a tour bus every summer since I was a kid.

I'd like to have a kid, and I'd like to be driving around. I know a kid is going to be a big part of my life. I can trust my kid. I know my kid would be in the backseat of my car, and when I say You wanna get some ice-cream? he's going to be happy. My brother has kids. I see that trick work, the ice cream trick.

I'm very open with my kids and we can talk about anything.

I have one brother who's five years older than me and he was a huge part of my childhood.

I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!

If he wasn't so vital in my younger days, I would have never kept up with baseball. At some point, your dad has to motivate you until you actually realize what you're doing.

I love my time with my kids.

My embarrassing confession is that my father is a 'Camelot: The Musical' obsessive. So as a child, when we were going to visit relatives on the weekend, whenever we were driving back on these three-hour drives, he would be playing the musical soundtrack on repeat, on the cassette in our car, to the extent that we begged him never to play it again.

When I was a kid, my dad used to take me out to the race track, and so many formative experiences have to do with associations like that.

When I was a boy, it was paradise to go hunting with my father.

I loved being my father's audience and watching him in front of the mirror as he talked to himself made up like a clown.

When I was younger, even though I had a big brother, my parents would give me the house key every day.

I love my family, and there's so many things in life I enjoy, but when I'm in the car there's nothing else that means anything.

I remember Nigel Martyn joking with me at Leeds, saying he was old enough to be my father, which he certainly was.

When I was 17, my dad was teaching in the States. He hired an A-Team-style van, and we drove all over. My resounding memory of it was that we saw all these wonderful places but that my sister and I were being horrible, sulky teenagers.

Time is so precious with kids that you have to spend as much time with them as you can.

Father and son games - that was the best day. We'd be dressed at 6 o'clock in the morning. The game would be at 7 o'clock at night... And we'd play at, like, 5.

I still remember how me and my husband spent 30 minutes trying to convince our then 10 and 12 year old son and daughter that they really would love this black and white movie called, 'It's a Wonderful Life'.

My mother used to ask me to stay home from school and keep her company. I'd fake I was sick, and she'd fake believing me.

Dad's easy to get along with. He always has suggestions, and I'm more than happy to be guided by him.

When I was a toddler, my father cut hair in the townhouse we had shared together in Long Beach, California, where Dad was stationed with the U.S. Navy. The buzz of clippers consistently hummed as he gave fades to his coworkers, my uncles, and my brother, but his clippers were never oiled and plugged in for my head.

I pretty much grew up with my grandma. She would pull a stool over to the kitchen, and I would climb up at the kitchen counter, and I'd help her make biscuits.