Andrew W.K. Quotes

I'm ready to live on my own. It's a really big step, but I'm ready.

It's not that I don't respect my parents' authority or appreciate all that they did for me, but when I was 18 I was able to move out, and I was out. I feel like a different person since then; I mean, it's obviously a big turning point in life. I feel like I've established myself, and I'm a smarter and more mature for it.

I lived at home until I was 23.

I lived at home till I was 29.

I'm on my own now. I have my own apartment.

I feel like 2012 was the first year I actually felt like a grown-up.

I've been a protected child, but I moved out for further studies when I was 16, and I have travelled quite a bit by myself.

My family lived in Thousand Oaks. In 2002, when I was 17, I begged my parents to let me move out. I had money, a real job, and wanted to get my own place.

After all, we are not children. It's time we planned our life.

I've grown up a lot, I'm on my own, and I've learned some valuable life lessons.

I deliberately went to boarding school. It was my choice. My mum was abroad and I wanted to wean myself off being dependent. It was a very important time for me to be able to create my own individual, independent life; just as a way of growing up.

I didn't want my parents to support me. I wanted to prove that I could do it by myself.

You have to eventually grow up and take control of your life, which is very hard to do.

By the time I turned 18, I moved into a little chalet of my own and felt very grown-up.

I told my parents, 'You've taken care of me all my life, helped me through college. You've been awesome, but now it's my turn to be my own man.'

Until you're the person that other people fall back on, until you're the one that's leaned on, not the person doing the leaning, you're not an adult.

I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.

It's all about baby steps and trying to figure out how to slowly, elegantly become an adult.

I moved from home in Scotland to home in WWE, and that was the first time being out on my own in my life.

I have a lot more responsibilities, I guess you could say. I have a lot more responsibilities than a lot of people my age.

There comes a time when you have to grow up and start thinking for yourself.

I wanted to be on my own. I couldn't wait to be on my own. It did not scare me. I was dependent my parents. I wasn't dependent government, but I was dependent on my parents. I started working essentially when I was 16, but I was still dependent on my parents. I couldn't wait to be on my own.

Maturity… is the ability to do something even though your parents have recommended it.

Through a huge duration of my life, someone has always picked up after me. And when you're on your own and you're trying to be independent, it's definitely different.

When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that.