Adverse Experience Quotes

I had a bad background just growing up as a child.

If you're eight and you live in Los Angeles and everybody has toys and you go to a country that has a Marxist dictatorship and there are no toy stores and nobody speaks English and it's blazing hot every day and they only have fish, which you don't like, then you tend not to appreciate the cultural lessons you're learning.

The first five to six years of my life were spent in and out of the hospital.

Looking back, I feel like I was really young, and at the time I didn't think that I was that young. It was extremely traumatic and awful and horrible. At the same time, it turned out for the best. I'm glad that I'm not there. I'm glad that it didn't happen when I was 50. I'm glad I didn't have kids. And I got that out of the way. Hopefully. Like, that's probably not going to happen again.

Every single person in jail for a violent crime had a nightmare childhood.

I didn't really get a normal childhood.

This accident, or incident, happened in the most secure place I could have felt I was in: Walking onstage with my guitar, you know?

My earliest childhood memory was watching my parents loosen the wheels on my stroller.

As a matter of fact I had a terribly traumatic childhood. But afterward I sort of reraised myself.

no one had experiences any more, only traumas.

On the one hand maybe I’ve remained infantile, while on the other I matured quickly, because at a young age I was very aware of suffering and fear.