Quotes About Adolescence

Years ago, when I was in school, I used to like a girl. But I didn't know if she liked me since I was something of a geek too. So, my feelings remained locked inside my heart.

I remember when I got to 16, my mum was like, 'No, now you've got to go and get a proper job. We've indulged you long enough.' I don't think they ever thought I was going to be successful in entertainment at all.

I remember when I went to the first Street League event in 2010 in Glendale, Arizona. I was only 15.

No one remembers it; none of my friends remember me having it, but I had really bad acne for, like, years.

My parents and grandparents listened to bacheta heavy, the true bachata from back in the day - Juan Luis Guerra, Anthony Santos. I liked the genre, but I remember thinking, 'OK, enough of this.' I would sing Usher's 'U Remind Me' to the girls in school.

'True School' is one great big reminder. It's a reminder to everybody in that middle school bracket that was in school when playing hard to get was out.

From the time I was about 7 until I was about 13 or 14, I looked like I was Pat from 'Saturday Night Live.' I'm not exaggerating, remotely.

I didn't write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for myself.

I lived through the Fifties in the Midwest when everything that was happening - the repression of homosexuality, for instance, the demonization of the Left, the giggly, soporific ordinariness of adolescence, the stone-deafness to the social injustice all around us - seemed not only unobjectionable but also nonexistent.

Is it possible to reproduce, later in life, the impact that books, records, and films have between the ages of fourteen and seventeen? The periods of my adult life that have been most miserable have been those in which I lost fidelity to what I discovered then.

I wasn't a good kid. I didn't hurt anybody, but I was doing things kids do that they shouldn't.

I started hustling in early adolescence.

I've always been into easy music. When I was 15, the record for me was 'Hysteria' by Def Leppard.

No one wants to be 13 and not able to eat their ice cream after dinner.

I had no fake ID and looked 14 until my first grey hairs came in a couple of years ago.

The idea of revenge coming from a 14-year-old girl isn't, you know, exactly right.

It is kind of hard to figure out who you are when you've lost your job at age 13, when that was basically how you identified yourself.

Everyone has an identity crisis when they are 16 or 17 years old.

I'm always thinking about identity. And the middle-school years are a time of exploring questions about who you are and who you want to be. For the first time, you see the world in a broader sense.

I didn't really have idols growing up, but some of my friends were huge fangirls.

If you have created an image of yourself at 13 and it is still with you at 17, it needs to be dropped.

When I was 13 years old, I was obsessed with horror films. I even had, like, a binder that I filled with badly copied images from the Internet of, like, 'Pinhead and Basket Case.'

Storybooks were always a big part of my imagination, and my childhood and adolescence.

Art imitates life. Life imitates high school.