David Edwards Quotes

I left home when I was 16 because I was looking for adventure.

I moved out of home when I was 15.

I left home when I turned 17 and ran away to New York. I did a lot of moving. I was based in New York and country-hopping, so I was always 'the new girl'.

I left for Madrid at 20 years old and I didn't really know how it would go.

I have been away from home since I was 17.

Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves.

I moved to Los Angeles when I was about 20, all by myself. It was exciting. I had this moment when I felt like I needed to put on my big-boy pants and just make that leap to see what would happen.

I was 17 when I left the small Maine town where I'd grown up. I wanted to do something I thought was important with my life, so I headed to California and didn't look back.

I left for New York three days after graduation.

When I was 17, I decided I was going to leave home.

I looked at my parents when I was 17, and I said, 'I'm moving to L.A.'

I feel like, of course, Portland didn't want me to leave, but I feel like at the end of the day it's good to have a fresh start.

I left home to go to college, and then I moved back home. I moved back for three years from 21 to 24.

I was trying to learn how to deal with the freedom that I had away from home for the first time. 'Long Black Train,' the song and the album, are very special to me. It was just one of those things that I felt like God gave to me for a purpose, and I've been out here promoting that purpose.

I moved to California not to pursue acting but to get out of Albuquerque.

I started out myself rather late you see, I was 18.

Yeah, I left Idaho at 17. You know, I graduated high school a year early and just, you know, the typical story, packed up my car and moved out.

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

All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.

What I finally did in 1995 was I said, I'm going to get out of this town and I'm going to go out West.

I'm still a kid. I'm like six years old. But it's just a matter of wanting to get up, it's just a big journey. I felt like when I left home that I was on a journey, and I still am.

I found the world extraordinarily strange, having first left home at 15.

I had really wanted adventure. At the time that I ran away, lots of kids ran away from home. It was something of a social phenomenon.

I wasn't upset to leave Los Angeles.

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