Robert N. Bellah Quotes

Once you move away from home, it's never quite the same again. You expect everything to be just as you left it, and it never is. It's almost the first step into adulthood, realising you've got to make your own way.

Before college, I was Cyndi, and then I think I went to college and I was like, 'You know what? Now I'm Cynthia.'

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

All the strands of my life came together and I really became a man when I moved to Chicago.

In S Club I played a role in a band, but now I can go off and be me - My horizon's wide open now. It's scary and it's daunting, but it's an absolute thrill. I feel brand new!

I've changed in my sympathies since I've become a mother myself. In high school I went through a period where I was close with my mom and had to break with her in order to find myself and come back. Since that was my experience, that's often what happens in my books.

I'm not a boy now. I'm a man, I hope. I hope I've had my artistic bar mitzvah somewhere.

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.

Being single has definitely given me a new lease of life.

I left home when I was 17 with Joe Williams.

When I was thirty, and a long time after that, I felt like I had to leave home to do what I had to do. Now, it's just the opposite.

I do feel like the end of 'Mad Men' is a sort of a coming of age.

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

I have always been interested in the idea of self-reinvention.

I've never forgotten what it's like to be in your early twenties, which is not a particularly easy time. You've left your family, you've left the strictures of high school, and you're trying to break free and form yourself but you have to support yourself as well. We don't really give enough credence to that time of life and to its troubles.

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

There's this coming-of-age thing that's happening within me.

I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.

In your mid-twenties, the paint is still wet on who you are.

Full disclosure: I went to university as an eager young feminist for many reasons - to get away from my parents, to soak up literature and knowledge, to cease being a child, to expand my mind and my world.

At 23, you can completely, literally reinvent yourself if you want to.

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

I left 'Spring Awakening,' and within a month of leaving the show, I came out to my parents and to my friends and broke up with my boyfriend and moved into an apartment of my own and completely changed my life.

In my early shows, I wanted to put myself through a new childhood, disintegrating my whole identity to let the real one emerge.

I understood the feeling of being 17 and living with your parents somewhere, and then being 18 and living in New York and having a city at your disposal.