Growing up means leaving home and becoming a self supporting adult. I think this the hardest task any human being hast to face.
If you're from Dublin, for example, chances are you live with your family, if you're lucky enough to, right up to the mid-20s. And most of the people I know, when they finally sort of set off on their own, they don't stray all that far.
I lived at home till I was 29.
Those songs are about getting out; they're not about getting out of family. It wasn't about how family life was curtailing because I didn't know family life.
Dorm-room life was a tough transition. You're young, and you realize how much you miss the comfort of home.
Life is the most exciting opportunity we have. But we have one shot. You graduate from college once, and that's it. You're going out of that nest. And you have to find that courage that's deep, deep, deep in there. Every step of the way.
I left home when I was 16 because I was looking for adventure.
I'm a late developer. I only moved out of home when I was 30.
I'm really a family girl. My mom's like, 'As soon as you're on your own, we're going to move back to Indiana.' Well, that might be when I'm 26.
Almost everyone is dying to leave home, eventually; and almost everyone needs to.
As my children leave the protected parameters of the bay called childhood and enter the wavier seas of adolescence, I'm starting to get seasick.
I grew up just as my friends did until 19 before leaving home, and it's because of that I am who I am now.
When I was 17, I decided I was going to leave home.
I grew up in Seattle, but I always knew I wanted to leave.
