Quotes About Youth

At the age of 10 I wrote and starred in a play that I took around to local old people's homes.

When I was 13 years old, my mom had me start getting facials in my hometown of Los Angeles.

When I was a little boy, there were a lot of children with physical problems in my hometown, and my parents used to work with them, and I learned a lot about that. Since I was a child, helping out, doing what I can, was something that fulfilled me.

I was 14 when the Democratic convention in my hometown of Chicago erupted into violence. It was a tough year.

I had started doing small community theater shows in my hometown of Cleveland. I did a lot of shows there before I met this director who told me, 'Listen, I really think you could be on Broadway.' And I was like, 'No, that's crazy.' I didn't believe it... I was 9, maybe 8 years old at the time, and I was like, 'No. No way.'

I love my hometown, but 'Leave Fast' is the way I felt when I was 17, 18 - it's that fear that I'd never be able to do something else.

I was discovered when I was 13 by an agent. I was standing outside a coffee shop in Gothenburg, my hometown, when I was approached.

My main goal is to help out kids in my hometown and realize their dream in weightlifting.

Kids spend seven hours a day in school, and they have their homework at night. I'm not there to moralize or to teach them right from wrong. We're there to provide something that is really fun, that's a diversion.

I have never done any homework even when I was a child!

I've never mastered the guitar. Either I was playing it, or it was playing me; it depends how you look at it. As a kid, the only things I had to do was go to school, do my homework, and play guitar.

Honestly, what I think set everything off is when I cut my hair off when I was 16 and dyed it blue. After that, I just felt so free and wanted to experiment with my look.

Honestly, I'm not going to lie. I was a good kid.

I was honestly never a huge school person.

I think what kids who like heavy music are really looking for is the honesty and candour of it.

When I'm out with my girlfriends at the bar, and I see some young 18-year old boy, just for fun I say, 'Hi honey. Do you like girls? Do you like girls exclusively? Oh, good.'

I've grown up listening to Gorillaz, so for me to, like, be asked to be on the album is an honour.

When I did 'Boyz N The Hood', I never thought how we grew up in South Central was interesting enough for a movie.

At 19 years old, when I came out of St. John's, I was fresh out the 'hood. I was fresh out of Queensbridge.

When I was a kid, my aunt snuck us into see 'Boyz n the Hood.'

It's every boy's dream to play Captain Hook.

I went to Catholic school, and there was this teacher, a Brother, who saw I could go either way, good or bad. He took an interest in me and got me to do a play. I got hooked on acting, and it gave me something constructive to do. I had a lot of energy.

I was 17, still in school, and my manager saw me in school, and then we hooked up, and after that, I went straight into making music.

Like, I did baseball, football, or track - I never really worked on a sport every day for years like most kids that hoop.