Quotes About Youth

I always wanted to have my own album recorded and released before I graduated high school.

I had never released any music until 'Bruises' came out when I was 20.

I always wanted to have my own album released before I graduated from high school.

Plus, you know, when I was young, there was a lot of respect for clowning in rock music - look at Little Richard. It was a part of the whole thing, and I always also believed that it released the audience.

I put together an iPhone app called TrimIt and released that in July 2011. About a month later, the private fund of the Hong Kong billionaire Li-Kashing cold emailed me and expressed an interest to invest, but they didn't realize I was 15. They thought it was a U.K. company with a team.

I was just 13 when 'The Big Chill' was released in late September 1983, so I didn't catch all of its nuances when I sneaked into the theater to see it. But I could tell one thing for sure: These people were grown-ups.

I was 17 when I released my first record. I didn't really figure out what I wanted to say, how to get a message and put it together.

When Destiny's Child released their first record, I don't think I even noticed. I was still at school, and I had my own life in Houston.

I know when 'California Dreamin' was first released, we heard it on KFWB or KHJ or something, and it was so exciting to hear the record come on the radio.

I grew up with the Pack. When they released 'Vans,' it was a seeing-is-believing moment.

I'm 23, and if I wanted to release a record when I was 17, I could have released a record, but I'm really glad I didn't.

I am a big fan of Independiente and I played in their youth systems before being released for being too small, so I went to work with my father as a builder. This helped me understand a lot of things about life; it made me mentally very strong and it also pushed me to go and play for another team.

I started singing and writing songs since childhood and later started releasing my independent music.

Don't shame the young for releasing their pent-up fear.

People criticize you for trying new things. I think, 'I'm new! I'm 22!' I don't know exactly what my sound is or what I want my album to sound like, so I'm not releasing it yet. While I'm experimenting, I'll let you in on the journey, and you can hear it for free.

People get devalued in Hollywood when they age, despite all their efforts to stay relevant and beautiful and young. They can't get jobs anymore.

Besides film, I'd like to be the young Regis. That would be great. Going back and forth from L.A. to New York. Doing stuff on food. Doing stuff on kids. Just talking about issues that are relevant. Doing things on the Olympic Games.

I think it sort of dawns on you that if you're not gigging constantly you're not actually relevant. You may be relevant to a different part of the media now, to television commissioners and editors, but to a young live-comedy audience you're not, really.

'Romeo & Juliet' is still relevant and real.

The SAT is not particularly relevant to my life.

I'm still waiting for rock bands to come back, something raw and relevant.

I'm very proud of what I was able to do during the '90s, when baggy pants were in and East/West rap was relevant and all these different things.

Age is irrelevant. Experience is relevant.

A song about post-teenage angst like 'Mad World' seems to be permanently relevant.