Alexa Ray Joel Quotes

My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.

My parents were young and liberal and knew I was going to drink anyway, so they let me do it at home.

I wanted to be on my own and get out of the house. We were the kind of kids that - we - obeyed our parents. If they said no, you don't ask why.

Being a teenager, I would think they were real strict, and I would get upset, but I'm glad they were like that. They didn't let us do whatever we wanted. We weren't allowed to date until we were, like, juniors in high school.

The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.

If I had to live my life over, I'd live over a saloon.

My mom was very strict when I was growing up. I could not talk to boys until I was 18. I had to study and work hard.

My dad was pretty strict. We didn't even get to watch any of his movies until I was, like, 17 years old. I didn't even see his stand-up, really, until I started doing stand-up, and that was when I was 22. So he's pretty strict. We had curfews until I was 17... he didn't play around.

My mom wouldn't let me do child acting.

No one wants to be 13 and not able to eat their ice cream after dinner.

I don't care about the drinking, I just want to be able to go hang out and not have to worry about being too young.

People connect to a good bar very personally.

My mum will never let me be anything but grounded.

Of course many bars in Manhasset, like bars everywhere, were nasty places, full of pickled people marinating in regret.

I didn't go to bars much. One drunken asshole was all I could handle and that was me. I wrote. I don't remember a lot of it.

Now son, you don’t want to drink beer. That’s for Daddies, and kids with fake IDs.

I'm going to lower the drinking age to eighteen. If you're old enough to die in Iraq, you're old enough to drink.

The only reason people go to bars is to get drunk and have sex. To me, bars are what hell is like.

Canada, the drinking age is 18, that's unnecessary. Nobody wants to get loaded around people who have hope and their whole lives still ahead of them.

I had very strict parents, I could never go outside or go to parties.

In Texas, it's legal for a kid to be in a bar with your parents.

My parents were very strict with me when it came to boys and dating.

There are no filmy parties for my daughter. I'm a bit old-fashioned in such cases because I don't want my child to lose her innocence at such an early age.

I just realized I have probably spent more time in a strip club than Rihanna has, and that is saying a lot because she goes a lot!

My mom didn't let me eat sugar or candy until I was older.