Earl Sweatshirt Quotes

I know that my dad not being in my life made a huge impact on me.

I grew up without a father figure.

If I could change anything, I would definitely have had a father around. My father. I would definitely say it affected me deeply as a young man, coming up. Who doesn't want a father? Those are the beginnings, and those are what can dictate the roads you choose in life, and choosing them well.

Being a child that grew up with a single mom back in the '70s, Father's Day to me was always a very uncomfortable time. At school, we would make Father's Day cards for our dads, and I usually mailed one to my dad, and he hardly ever responded.

People say you don't need a father to be successful. I take offense to that.

My father left when I was three, and I have no memory of him. The most significant male figures in my life were my grandfather, in whose house I lived during the first 10 years of my childhood, and later my stepfather.

My father was gone when I was three years old.

Of course there's some things that I would have liked to have... none of my friends growing up had their father in the house. None of 'em. We had uncles and stuff like that, but nobody had a father in the house, none of my friends.

I didn't have a father figure in the house.

I know there are a lot of kids who aren't lucky enough to have a father figure in their lives. That's a really tough obstacle to overcome.

I didn't grow up with my father in my life, and that bred a resentment in me, and it bred a mentality in me that made me very angry.

A lot of people don't even know that about me, I grew up without a father.

It is very difficult when you grow up without a father because you don't have a man who can give you direction and discipline.

I never had a father figure so I never missed it.

I grew up in a town without fathers.

I never suffered from the absence of a father. On the contrary, as a child I was more inclined to see men as a disturbing factor. It made things difficult for me when I started working as a director.

I didn't have a father when I was growing up, and I vowed to be there with my kids.

Think about one of the most powerful influences on a young child's life - the absence of a father figure. Look back on recent presidents, and you'll find an absent, or weak, or failed father in the lives of Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.

The thing about living without a father if he's always gone is that it takes a long time to realize he isn't coming home.

I want to be the dad that my father never was.

I don't know what it's like to have a typical father figure. He's not the dad who's going to take me to the beach and go swimming, but he's such a motivational person.

Everybody's got a father. Even if he's not the nicest guy in the world.

I have no worthwhile memories of my father, therefore no idea of what a father's role should be.

If you don't have a father, you don't miss it, because you don't know what it is. It was really only when I married Wyatt Cooper that I understood what it was like to have a father, because he was just an extraordinary father.

My father was absent and he was a hero to me.