William Joyce Quotes

Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.

I was obsessed with movies when I was younger. During the summer, I would go by myself to a theater down the street from my house. I saw every comedy or science fiction movie that came out. My kids love going to the movies, but 3D scares them.

Looking back, I think that's why I did music. I'd get home from school and the house would be so quiet.

As a kid in New Zealand, you play cricket in summer and rugby in winter. I played cricket and hockey. Not rugby. I wasn't brawny enough for it. Or silly enough, perhaps.

I love the ocean; growing up around Laguna Beach, I spent my summers surfing, diving, and snorkeling.

Our house was awash in books, and my mother doled out her favorites like they were special treats - which they were.

I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end. I don't remember any of his ladies being bookish. So I was entirely dependent on my schoolteachers for my early reading with the exception of 'The Wind in the Willows,' which a stepmother read to me when I was in hospital.

I grew up playing music and enjoying good food, friends and family in my own backyard.

I did have a dog for a few years when I was little, but then just really had cats until I was about 21.

My earliest influences were things I heard in my household.

I never picked up a guitar as a kid, partly because my dad didn't want the noise in our little back-to-back in Sheffield.

When I was ten, I won the horseshoe-throwing contest at summer camp. I was also the Wiffle ball champion in my town.

We played on a sandlot all summer. There was no little league back then.

When I was a kid, we didn't really leave Cambridge, which was the town where I grew up in.

The house was big enough for my brother and me to have firecracker wars at one end and leave Mom and Dad undisturbed at the other. When firecrackers weren't available, we attacked each other with pennies and marbles and clumps of Crisco, which made brilliant greasy asterisks when you missed and hit the wall.

I like the idea of raising a kid in my trailer. My mother was an actress. I grew up in theater with her in Brazil. I would play with set dolls. And I loved it.

I'd say some of my earliest scent memories are from home - just things that were around my house, and my mom's cooking.

I've always felt connected to music. There was always music playing at home, and I'd just dance and sing.

As a kid in the projects, I always looked forward to spring break. We'd either have cousins visiting us for the week from up north, and we'd all play sports together, or sometimes I'd go to Vero Beach and hang with my cousins there.

I like a full house because it's how I grew up. I'm one of six children.

I remember, when I was a kid, my summers were pretty much running around, riding your bike, and then complaining about you were bored.

As a child in South Carolina, I spent summers like so many children - sitting on my grandparents' back porch with my siblings, spitting watermelon seeds into the garden or, even worse, swallowing them and trembling as my older brother and sister spoke of the vine that was probably already growing in my belly.

It's really hard to escape where you were brought up. Not that I would ever want to escape it.

I do have, like, a regular childhood. I mean, I'm treated the same.

My father was sick when I was little, and we had a woman, a nanny-type, who was from Ireland. Her daughter was in Irish dancing, so she put me in it, and in the summertime, every weekend was filled with traveling somewhere to dance in competitions.