“I'm grateful that, after an early life of being silenced, sometimes violently, I grew up to have a voice, circumstances that will always bind me to the rights of the voiceless.” SometimesVoiceRightsGrewCircumstancesGrew UpGratefulVoicelessEarly Life Author:Rebecca Solnit
“When I grew up in the early '90s, the new World Wide Web felt like a gimmick, and I had no idea of the changes in store. In the summers, I'd backpack through Europe, follow the Grateful Dead. I had a car and a tent and traveled around the Great Lakes and out West. Jack Kerouac was my guiding light, his 'On the Road' a sacred text.” WorldIdeasLightFeltCarGrewSummerGrew UpEuropeGratefulSacredWestWideStoresNo IdeaLakesNew WorldTraveledTentsGimmicksWorld Wide WebGuiding LightGreat LakesSacred Texts Author:Tony D'Souza
“My feeling about growing up in New Jersey was, 'How come I'm not in New York?' That being said, I'm older and I have a better worldview now, and so I think I grew up in an incredibly privileged position. The town I grew up in is beautiful. I got a great education, and I'm very grateful for it.” ThinkingSaidFeelingsBeautifulGrowing UpGrowingNew YorkPositionGrewGrew UpTownsGratefulPrivilegedJerseyWorldviewNew JerseyGreat Education Author:Anne Hathaway
“An important meeting point for me was realizing the similarity between a DJ set and a Grateful Dead set: I grew up listening to how the Dead would take a song and just jam on it, and then transition into another song.” ImportantSongRealizingListeningGrewGrew UpGratefulMeetingsTransitionJamSimilarityDjs Author:Avey Tare
“I'm very, very, very, very spiritual. I grew up in an organized religion, I went to Sunday school as a kid. I'm very grateful that there was religion. I think it instills a good moral compass.” ThinkingKidsSchoolSpiritualMoralGrewGrew UpGratefulOrganizedSundayCompassOrganized ReligionInstillSunday SchoolMoral CompassGood Moral Author:Taryn Manning
“I grew up in San Francisco. My parents were not hippies; they were writers. They were very active politically, but on the intellectual side, not on the "taking drugs in a field and listening to the Grateful Dead" side.” ParentSidesFieldsListeningGrewDrugGrew UpIntellectualGratefulActiveSan FranciscoHippie Author:Winona Ryder
“It's good to have some kind of California in there. It's almost always appropriate. It's appropriate on a sunny day or late at night. If you grew up on the Grateful Dead, which I certainly did, you listened to 10 million bootlegs. But you realize that American Beauty has some really tight, well-arranged songs that aren't meandering.” IfsWellsKindNightSongRealizingMillionsGrewLateGrew UpGratefulCaliforniaAppropriateSunnySunny Day Author:Craig Finn