Kat Edmonson Quotes

It's inherently a part of my childhood and my development as a person and an artist, this childlike feeling knowing that something is missing but not quite knowing how to fix it. I'm always drawing on it.

My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father telling me fairy tales that he had made up shaped me profoundly, too.

If you make a film about childhood, you've got to pick a moment - you know, 'The 400 Blows.'

The first song I wrote, when I was 8, was about feeling really angry - like the weight of everything on my shoulders.

No one in my family wrote. And there was no real introduction. I suppose I somehow blundered into it when I was about six or seven years old. I was asked what present I would like, and, without knowing why, I responded that I would like a journal. It was a beautiful journal - so beautiful that I didn't want to sully it.

I had a pretty sexual imagination for a kid.

Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.

I thought it was my job to give all the boys their first kiss.

The most important influence in my childhood was my father.

My father was an atheist, absent. He was a salesman; I was four years old when he told me that the end of life was death.

My childhood definitely revolved around my relationship with my brother. I wanted to be different. I wanted to find my way of being as intriguing and interesting as he was.

If you're trying to recreate life, the life that you best know is the one you grew up with.

I am astonished, when I pause to think about it, to discover myself to be an author of humorous novels for children. Or an author at all. I had a childhood much like everyone else's. What went wrong?

My childhood was extreme.

It's natural for a child to assume that his or her own childhood is unremarkable.

When I was about 12, I was studying Chinese and ballet with my brother, and one morning Jonathan said to me, 'I don't think I'm going to go to ballet class anymore,' and I looked at him and said, 'You know, I don't think I'm going to go to Chinese class anymore.'

I remember I always felt much more safe standing up on a chair and singing in front of my mother than I was in front of my father!

I wrote my first song in the first or second grade.

I have been brought up in an environment which was quite an exciting childhood.

As a child singer, I never sang a single track for my father or uncle.

When I first started singing in Paris, I sounded horrible: I was just singing to get some money to eat. And I wasn't singing my own songs: it was Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix. Eventually, when I wrote my own music, my style just came out of my own place.

I was writing a lot even as a kid.

Subconsciously, there was always an actor inside me. But while growing up, it was a very normal childhood because my dad never got films to the dining table and never discussed films.

There was an open mic night when I was about 11 years old and I went and I played the songs that I'd written in my bedroom and it was the first night where I felt like I was myself at school.

I very much want to write about some elements of my own growing up.