Catherine Opie Quotes

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 had a really hard time growing up; we were a large family, and we didn't have much money at home.

By the time I turned 18, I moved into a little chalet of my own and felt very grown-up.

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

I definitely had a hard time leaving for college because I'm not much of a risk-taker.

The first time I lived in L.A. I was too young. I really wanted to be back home in Vancouver.

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

Sixteen is a hard time. A lot of kids are experimenting with things.

I left home when I was 17 with Joe Williams.

Being a teenager is an amazing time and a hard time. It's when you make your best friends - I have girls who will never leave my heart and I still talk to. You get the best and the worst as a teen. You have the best friendships and the worst heartbreaks.

They couldn't wait to get me out. My dad found my place, my mom helped me pack, and my brother was making architectural plans for my bedroom. It was just what you do at 18.

I moved out of home when I was 15.

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

The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small town is called a small town: It's because not many people want to live there.

My plan growing up was to leave home and try not to panic. I always knew that to strive to be self-sufficient was an important ambition.

When I moved out of my mom's house at 18 I was almost as sad to leave her sewing machine behind as anything else.

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

I was 28, and my mom was living with me. I had to decide. You have to claim it; you can't ask permission. After a gig in Singapore, she went home, I went to New York on my own, I packed her stuff in boxes and sent it home. I don't think she liked me for a while for doing that. It was something I needed to do to carve out my own space.

However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leaving home.

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

A home is a place in time. And no place stays the same after you finally grow up and leave it. No place can ever change as much as the person who grows up there.

It was a big step for me in the Netherlands: to leave home at the age of 18.

I have been away from home since I was 17.

Growing up means leaving home and becoming a self supporting adult. I think this the hardest task any human being hast to face.