Quotes About Adolescence

Back in high school, there was something fun and dangerous about inhabiting a different personality.

Growing up, I had an insane crush on Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys.

Being stuck in adolescence - that's a hell. 'Peter Pan' is a dystopia, and we forget that. Neverland is a bad place to be.

You can't tell the story of a 13-year-old boy who knows every lyric to 'Phantom of the Opera' without also referencing how much teasing he gets at school.

Growing up, my parents loved Bon Jovi and Boston and Rush and all that, but it wasn't really connecting with me. I was still in my boy-band phase - Backstreet Boys for life!

I wasn't a good kid in school. I wasn't a bad kid. I just didn't focus. My grades weren't good. I mucked around, you know, a phase everyone went through.

I went through a really dorky phase.

I don't believe in professional dissidents. I think it's just a phase, like adolescence.

I went through a really good-looking phase from birth to 9. And then things went crazy. I don't know what happened, but between 9 and 14 it was really, really rough. I didn't have a lot of friends. The only ones who were nice to me were the theater kids. And they were like, 'You can come and join us. No one likes us.'

For me, my awkward phase corresponded to an interest in rock n' roll. From experience, I'm guessing an insecure childhood is probably quite a common thing among people who start a rock band.

Everyone has their awkward phase. I think everything passes, and that is key to remember - none of us looked like this when we were younger... Everybody grows into themselves, and you learn about yourself.

I was 15 on American Idol, and everybody had something to say. It was like I had my really awkward phase on national television, you know?

I did have an emo phase. It was sort of like armor for me.

My awkward phase can be summed up in three words: Clear. Braces. College.

I've grown up on TV, and there were some phases that weren't pretty.

I think everyone has their awkward phases. Growing up isn't easy for everyone. I definitely had my awkward moments.

It's a natural phenomenon that when you hit as a little kid, as a teenybopper, we'll call it, everybody who used to like you back in that period of time grows up and they leave you back there.

I think about growing up back in Philly. It was about friendship with the guys and having a distant crush on some gal. And when you finally got the nerve to take her out on a date, you went to her parents' house with a shine on your shoes, took her to the movies, and got her home nice and early.

One of my favorite activities as a teen-ager was to watch television over the phone with my best friend.

I didn't use a phone until I was 14.

They kept me in short pants as long as they could, until they were shaving the hair on my legs because it was beginning to photograph.

Before adolescence I had an incredible voice. Like when I was 12, 13, 14 - I was taking acting classes, I was painting, I was making music, I was taking photographs. I was kind of exploding creatively, and then something about adolescence really just ground that out of me.

It was a long time ago: I was 13, and my dad actually sent photos to two different agencies of all of my family, and I had no idea.

Frankly, I think it should be no football until you're physically mature.