John Denver Quotes

Everybody's family has problems.

My daughter couldn't care less about me being famous. She finds it revolting and, like a lot of teenagers, is virtually allergic to me. That started at 12 and hasn't gone anywhere yet.

It seemed like my father and I were always fighting. I know a lot of kids go through that with their families, but it was hard for me.

I, like many people, have had bumps in the road when it comes to family. Family dynamics are complicated and weigh heavily on me.

One of the things about parents and children is that there is no way that you go through this without there being mutual anger.

There's a moment in time where kids really don't want to hear anything from their parents.

A grown child is a dangerous thing.

It's very strange that the people you love are often the people you're most cruel to.

If you've gone into a marriage and you haven't been clear about how you're going to handle money, how you want to raise kids, who is going to work or stay home or what have you, then you've set yourself up for failure.

When you're unhappy in your marriage, your children are the ones who suffer.

Me and my father went through a war period where we wasn't talking. He wanted me to go to theology school - I didn't want to go. I wanted to do music. I told him I was a minister through music.

I've never understood why the end of a relationship - especially one involving children - has to immediately signal a descent into hatred and toxicity.

My mother is who she is. I've become who I am. At some point I realized those two just didn't go together.

There's no such thing as a teenager that listens to a single word their father says.

It doesn't matter what kind of problems a family is having; it should always stay in the family.

If I differ with my husband, I certainly would not tell you.

I'm not a tech-savvy parent. I communicate with my children via the old-media format called yelling.

The biggest problem is when a player asks a captain why he is not playing but does not want an honest answer.

There were times my mom and I butted heads - over my curfew, over something like that. Whenever we would hit these moments of emotional backfire, she would say, 'You just don't understand what it's like to be a mother... I could never handle losing you.' I was like, 'OK, but just, like, chill out.'

I wasn't very good a communicating as a kid. I wasn't very good at speaking my mind, and I went through some challenges as a kid with my family, as we all do.

I was one of those daughters who saw my mother as my enemy when I was a teen.

Many people from many different walks of life have marriages that break up, and those are deeply personal, deeply painful but ultimately private matters.

I don't think there's necessarily anything that's rock solid about any marriage. It's all about that balance, especially when you have kids.

People ask me, do I ever disagree with my father? It would be a little strange if I didn't.

It wasn't a leap for me to go from not wanting to be in my body as a teenager, not wanting to be in my house, to thinking, 'What would happen if I had disappeared?' And then going from writing scenes of angry kids to thinking a little more about the parents and what their lives would be like.