I grew up as this very carefree, happy kid then things turned darker for me. Maybe it was because I saw that the world wasn't as happy a place as I had hoped it would be for me.
Children make you want to start life over.
While I didn't have everything that I wanted, I was still a happy kid.
My mom said, "What I want is a happy kid, not a rich kid. That's what I root for." She saw how much joy I got from playing music, and those years were leaner than lean!
I was a happy kid up until I hit the teen years.
When I got married in my twenties, I had a happy marriage and happy kids but at some point in time I let it go off the rails I let it go off the rails.
What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.
I was a pretty happy kid, I had to fake it. I had to get into this miserable character before I wrote poems.