Quotes About Youth

My parents tell me that I've been singing since I was really young.

I started singing at the Met when I was seven, and the competition was so fierce that it really prepared me.

When I became 16 I started thinking seriously about singing.

When I was 5, I started taking singing lessons, and then, after 'School of Rock,' I started taking guitar lessons. I would always write songs and play them for my friends, and I would play my guitar on the set a lot.

When I was younger, I started taking singing lessons and dance and acting. I just started acting first because that's how everything happened.

I tried a little of everything when I was little. I tried karate, I tried ballet, I tried piano lessons and singing lessons... I was a pretty normal kid, for the most part.

I was in ballet classes, I took singing lessons, I started taking acting classes as a hobby. When I was younger, I had my mind set on dancing or singing.

When I was young, I had a beautiful singing voice.

Every single minute matters, every single child matters, every single childhood matters.

I had a hit single on the radio for 30 days before I graduated from high school.

We must ensure that every single child can go as far as their ability and their aspirations will take them.

Kids are watching us. I experience it every single day. They hang on my every word, what I wear, what I say.

I know, when I was younger, I would look in the mirror every single day and hate what I saw.

I would like to trade places with my sister. I think that would be really interesting. She's three years younger than me, and she's a gymnast. She goes to gymnastics, like, every single day, and that's a whole other world to me, and I think that would be very interesting.

I saw 'Clueless' probably when I was about 8 or 9 years old. And, I had certain films that I would fall asleep so it was 'Clueless' for quite a long time, and I used to just watch it every single night and knew every single line, every single quote.

I do have a lot to learn, and I think that has a big factor in everything. Being 19 years old and being able to be in the UFC has a big effect on every single thing that people look at.

I was singled out by other girls for participating in classroom discussions and physically bullied.

My kids don't really buy albums. They buy singles.

It would be Beyonce Knowles, because we are around the same age and I think she sings very, very well.

These poets (fans of whatever) should be contacting other young poets on their way - not those who have made it, who sit on a star and then have plenty of problems: usually no money, usually the fear their own writing is going down the sink hole.

I know my 17-year-old self would read my bourgeois fiction, full of metaphors and rhythmic prose, with a sinking heart.

Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.

I took on the sins of everybody, of a generation, really.

One of my best memories is with a really good group of people in the Canberra Youth Theatre. We did a play about the seven deadly sins, and we had to dress up in costume and perform in Garema Place like the drama freaks we were. Great fun.