Quotes About Adolescence

The first real concert, other than going with my dad to see Three Dog Night, was Smashing Pumpkins and Garbage. I was fourteen or fifteen. I liked Shirley Manson because she reminded me of Annie Lennox. They both have these deep, sexy, powerful alto voices.

I've been a teenager. I even feel like I've been a 16-year-old girl. So I have a lot of voices inside my head!

I've never had issues with popularity. I was always a popular guy... I've always had friends and loved ones and everything, so it wasn't like, 'Oh man, I gotta fill some void that was left by high school.' I had a great high-school experience.

My father worked for the Foreign Office, so he was away a lot of the time. We were a very volatile family. There was a lot of love and a lot of conflict. The conflict kicked in mostly during my adolescence.

When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.

I was voted funniest person in my middle-school yearbook. So I guess I was funny in middle school?

I've never been innocent, but I don't think I'm a bad kid! I didn't get voted prom king. I was kind of the dancer, the performer, but I was always very athletic, too.

When I was a teenager, just about the only thing I could do right was play music. In my graduating class, I was certainly not voted 'Most Literary Boy.' I can assure you I was not voted 'Mostly Likely to Succeed.' I was voted 'Most Musical Boy.' And the music led to the poetry.

I was voted 'most shy' in seventh grade! Can you even believe it?

I'm 16, and I'm still self-conscious. Everyone is at this age.

I didn't have high self-esteem when I was a teen-ager, as I think most teen-agers don't.

Like everyone, I had low self-esteem, and I wanted to be like the pretty, popular girls.

I was only 5'10'' until I was a senior in high school.

Obviously I had a different sense of humor when I was 13.

I remember being 12 or 13 and reading 'Seventeen' and 'CosmoGirl.' They were all about self-improvement.

I was really into Michelangelo in seventh and eighth grade.

A lot of my friends who were really sporty in year 7 and 8, in years 9 and 10 they stopped playing. It was a shame.

Scotland was home to me from when I was 12 up until I was 22. I decided to drop my English bit, and when anyone asked where I came from, I always said Scotland. It really shaped the fibres of my being.

I was in this sheltered little environment where, basically, all my high school experience was in 'Life Goes On,' and everyone told me where to go, what to do, how to think - I never had to do anything for myself.

In secondary school, I became aware of the idea of being cool, and that was a bit of a shell shock.

I was making short films and putting on plays at school. I was also in love with my teacher, so yeah - I was the kid in 'Rushmore.'

I got my awkward years out of the way.

I was an awkward kid.

I always thought I was sort of awkward and goofy-looking. I'm still kind of gangly.