Carefree State Quotes

We all know how to be a child. It's inside all of us. For me, it's just remembering how to enjoy it.

When the blackberries hang swollen in the woods, in the brambles nobody owns, I spend all day among the high branches, reaching my ripped arms, thinking of nothing, cramming the black honey of summer into my mouth; all day my body accepts what it is. In the dark creeks that run by there is this thick paw of my life darting among the black bells, the leaves; there is this happy tongue.

And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.

I feel like a young man of 15.

I still haven't been able to capture the joy of what it's like when I sing - you know, when I'm by myself, or like when I was a little kid.

When I get back on snow, it's almost like I travel back in time to that feeling I used to have. That youthful, 6-year-old, 'nothing else matters,' 'you're sort of the center of the universe' kind of a feeling.

I think my most happy and carefree state was 2012 because I really did say, 'Forget everything. I'm going to play for myself.'

Everything is better when you're floating. Every task you do is fun. You get up in the morning, get coffee, look around, and think, 'Wow, I'm floating!'

The best of my nature reveals itself in play, and play is sacred.

I can remember when, as a beginner, I was delighted with any ball as long as it would bounce.

He sounded like a man who had slept well and didn't owe too much money.

My quest these days is to find my long lost inner child, but I'm afraid if I do, I'll end up with food in my hair and way too in love with the cats.

More fundamentally, it is a dream that does not die with the onset of manhood: the dream is to play endlessly, past the time when you are called home for dinner, past the time of doing chores, past the time when your body betrays you past time itself.

I love being pregnant. You can do whatever you want.

children are simply human beings who are allowed to do what everyone else really desires to do, as for instance, to fly kites, or when seriously wronged to emit prolonged screams for several minutes.

I had always shown childhood as something difficult, something you want to get the hell out of, but now I wanted to do a story that was the opposite, about that moment in time when you're in that world of discovery, doing what you want to do. That fleeting moment when you're in your zone.

I wish I could always look like I've just finished a really good laugh.

I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.

I get absolutely shitfaced. I am shitfaced and hyper and ten years old. I am having the time of my life.

A lot of young people think they are not going to die - and that's a great thing about being a young person, is living in this carefree oblivion.

Nothing spoils idle pleasure like too much awareness

You have no idea how pleasant it is not to have any future. It's like having a totally efficient contraceptive.

When people ask me what I think about when I'm playing, I picture myself as a 10-year-old girl, playing in the park, scoring a goal and then celebrating. That's when I'm playing best.

The song stands for a sense of joy in existence, a joy that is free of any good or bad choices.

In maiden meditation, fancy free.