Quotes About Youth

When I started go-karting at the age of six, I always dreamt of becoming a Formula One driver.

I was playing piano at three and started writing songs when I was six or seven, and I've been addicted since then.

Something people wouldn't expect me to do is I play this computer game called 'Runescape.' I've played 'Runescape' since forever. Since I was, like, six. It is still one of my favourite games ever.

Six months later I was in Paris. I was 16, and it all started to happen.

Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three.

It's absolutely chilling to think that I've been working on a comic-book series called 'Optic Nerve' since I was sixteen.

I am so romantic about Gypsies. They're not allowed to do anything until they get married. So they all get married really young, at sixteen.

I started making music for myself when I was sixteen.

I made about fifty-four dollars a week and spent it on two flying lessons every week at the age of sixteen and was able to get a license then pretty early and knew that that's what I wanted to do, some kind of a career in aviation. I did know about space flight, but at that point, it was still pretty far out there.

I remember what it feels like to be fourteen or sixteen, to have the world folded out in front of you, and to have a million choices ahead. I also remember what it feels like to be so open and impressionable and to want something so badly it's impossible to see that maybe it isn't the best thing for you.

Because up to sixteen years old you feel gymnastics more. You can show your emotion, grace, like woman gymnastics, not kid's gymnastics. I feel I have good shape, and I can do it elements everything, but, it's not competition for me.

'Stand By Me' was really great for me and my buddies; we'd all watch that together because that was us - we were down in the creek and hanging out every day and going on little adventures. I had about sixteen friends who are all about the same age as me and lived in a three-block radius. We spent our entire childhood down in that creek.

Between sixteen and eighteen, I was singing anywhere I could, in bars or down at the pub.

When I was sixteen, I borrowed a copy of 'To Kill a Mockingbird' from the mobile library. Democrats and Republicans were standing for very different principles, and I could see which side was going to represent me.

What's cool about the beatboxing is I was so afraid to sing in front of my peers, my parents, anybody. I just wouldn't do it. So in sixth grade, I would turn to beatboxing because it made me feel better. Like, I can beatbox 'Drop It Like It's Hot.' Doing that a bunch of times eventually gave me the confidence to sing in front of people.

I used to come home crying at the beginning, 'cause I was playing against high-school guys, college guys, and I was like in the sixth grade, so it was tough.

My first dunk was actually in sixth grade.

I bought an electric scooter in sixth grade. Bankrupted me.

When I was in the sixth form I presented a cable and satellite programme about music, television and video. I used to do public speaking competitions.

In the sixth grade, I planned to start my own business making custom fishing lures.

I don't think I really knew I was going to be a rapper until sixth grade. Even then, it was still kind of - I was in sixth grade. I was always saying I was going to become a rapper.

You know Bad News, 'The Young Ones?' I learned not to spend a buttload of money on a sixth member.

My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.

Nobody thought that the music boom of the Sixties was going to last.