Quotes About Adolescence

I'm awkward around girls.

I definitely felt awkward and I didn't fit in. Other than that, I'm learning that everyone felt that way: even the popular girls.

I saw 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' with my mom. It was really awkward.

When I was 12, I was going through an awkward time. Writing music helped me find my voice and express the things I was feeling.

I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.

When I was about 14, my family emigrated from England to Australia, and we decided to stop in Bali on the way through.

I was very serious about ballet until the age of 12, at which point my body changed, and it wasn't quite right.

I started writing when I was 13. I got my first electric guitar when I was 13, but I'd always been singing. I had my first little acoustic when I was six. But I started being in bands when I was 13.

I was a bandwagon jumper. If everybody in high school listened to it, so did I.

I was bar mitzvahed at Beth Shalom, and I had trouble. I didn't quite get it all.

From ages 10 to 12 or so, I barely remember anything.

I wasn't bat mitzvahed.

I was about 15 years old when I moved to the Bay area.

There's nothing funny the first time about telling a story about getting beat up and it makes you leave high school.

Growing up, I always wanted a bedroom of my own.

What was weird, as a 12-year-old actor, was being expected to behave like an adult while still being treated as a kid everywhere else.

I look back at my adolescence, and I'm shocked at the things I did that were my idea of adult behavior.

In high school, everyone told me I had a great personality and sense of humor, but I wanted to be the girl who boys liked because she was pretty on top of being funny. I was boy crazy.

As an adolescent, Vonnegut made my life bearable.

For three years, all through junior high, my social death was grossly overdetermined. I had a large vocabulary, a giddily squeaking voice, horn-rimmed glasses, poor arm strength, too-obvious approval from my teachers, irresistible urges to shout unfunny puns, a near-eidetic acquaintance with J.R.R. Tolkien, a big chemistry lab in my basement, a penchant for intimately insulting any unfamiliar girl unwise enough to speak to me, and so on.

Only I still had a problem. The problem was my parents. Of the many things I was afraid of in those days - spiders, insomnia, fish hooks, school dances, hardball, heights, bees, urinals, puberty, music teachers, dogs, the school cafeteria, censure, older teenagers, jellyfish, locker rooms, boomerangs, popular girls, the high dive - I was probably most afraid of my parents.

The whole notion of coolness was puerile.

A group of boys lumbered down the halls of Adas Israel, laughing, punching, blood rushing from developing brains to developing genitals and back again in the zero-sum game of puberty.

Some kids would be much better off without the added confusion of an adult point of view.