Rodney Crowell Quotes

I am living and having supernatural experiences. A lot of people get really freaked out about that. I speak in tongues; I've been baptized in the Holy Spirit.

Twentieth century history of Christianity will name Oral Roberts as the voice that brought the Pentecostal movement to be taken seriously by mainline Christianity.

When I was little I went to a Baptist Church with my grandmother. My earliest memories were of her falling out in the middle of the floor and they had to cover her with a white sheet. Every time we went to church it was scary. The music would start playing, and then everybody would start running and shouting and hollering and screaming.

My grandfather was a Pentecostal preacher.

In reality, speaking in tongues is an acquired skill. At the time, I thought I was undergoing a spiritual experience. You feel good when you do it.

Me and my older brother were taken from my mother at the same time so we were pretty tight.

My dad would take me deer hunting with him, which was pretty traumatic - 'Bambi' was one of my favorite movies.

All of us wish we'd had perfect childhoods, with a mother and father who modeled ideal parental attitudes and taught us to internalize the tenets of self-love. Many of us, however, did not.

My parents divorced about the same time the movie 'The Parent Trap' came out, about two twins at camp who scheme to get their parents back together. I had that same fantasy.

The word 'divorce' wasn't foreign to me. As a child of the 1970s, I grew up as part of a generation of kids whose parents got divorced, and it wasn't seen as this terrible thing. Maybe that's why I believed what my father told me and Reina that day: that everything would be okay. But it wasn't.

I had a very messianic childhood.

When I was just four-and-a-half, my parents separated and both my parents remarried.

My parents were divorced when I was 2, so I don't remember much about them being together.

I love a bit of drama.

I definitely didn't want children, because my childhood was not a very happy time.

I was in the streets at eight, nine years old.

Because football is an emotional game, it's full of feeling, and that's why we try to train with a smile on our face. At the same time, we work very hard, but it's a fine line, and you've got to try and get that balance right if you can.

I heard about the Holocaust before hearing the 'Cinderella' story or watching 'Peter Pan.'

I had a sort of rocky upbringing, and I think the theater was a safe place for me.

Is there such a thing as a normal childhood?

I done got hit with a belt, a toy, a stick, extension cord, a switch off a tree, whatever. At the same time, my pain tolerance went up... It came to the point where it built toughness... Yeah, it hurt, but I wasn't scared. I knew what was coming. Wasn't nothing I wasn't prepared for.

My mum and dad split up when I was five years old, and that was quite upsetting. But ever since then, I've been very hard.

The most profound memory I have from my childhood is burning down my house at 6 years old.

The Wicked Witch of the West really scared me as a child.

Having been raised during the war, I know very well how childhood hampered by displacement, poverty, violence, and fear looks like.