Quotes About Youth

I started hitching about the country when I was 16 or 17 years old. I found the music that was played around the country - Irish music - had a particular resonance.

I think the first concert I ever went to was maybe a Five Iron Frenzy concert or something when I was in high school.

When I was younger, and Iron Maiden and Def Leppard and all that stuff was coming out, I was learning all those songs and trying to play guitar and develop my chops. I was a big fan.

When I was 16, I'd ping pong between AC/DC and Barry Manilow without any sense of irony.

It's irrelevant to me what young Singaporeans think of me. I've lived long enough to know that you may be idealised in life and reviled after you're dead.

I think my perspective on my age is really irrelevant.

I think age is neither an asset nor challenge; it all depends on how you present yourself. Age is sort of irrelevant.

In interviews, the first question I get in America is always: 'What do you do to stay young?' I do nothing. I don't think aging is a problem. What irritates me a little is growing fatter. It irritates me that if I eat what I want to eat, it shows.

I was always that little kid that irritated people.

Poetry has never been written with the intention of making young people irritated, bored, anxious or humiliated, and yet the consequence of the test and exam system often does just that.

There's lots of bad things about teaching, but the really good thing is that you get to be around young people - irritating as they are.

I got my first exposure to Islam when I was 13.

I grew up on Long Island. It was pretty normal.

When I was four years old, we lived in the Fiji islands, but I don't remember much.

I've always had an affinity for the fashion industry - I've always been drawn to it. But I grew up in Calgary in Canada, which, being a fairly isolated city, is not particularly known for having anything to do with fashion.

When I was growing up and until I got married, I had some times when I felt a bit lonely and a little bit isolated - even after I got married.

I didn't act in Israel, but I wrote plays at home and acted in plays at school. I tried to get an agent when I was 12, but they told me that I had too much of an accent.

When Will and I were growing up in Los Angeles, his girlfriends were always Israeli, so we'd always be hanging out with Israelis in L.A.

If all you have to criticise me on is my age or my accent, then you really can't defeat me on the issues.

I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.

I did a lot of magic shows growing up. My dad is a graphic designer so he helped me brand myself and create a logo. So I was just rollin' with the magician crowd for a while. But I was really young, 10 to 13, doing table magic and balloon animals at this Italian restaurant.

It was tough moving to Italy so young. You don't have much experience of life, you are leaving your family and everything behind to go to another country and another culture.

I say to the young, be happy that you were born in Italy because of the beauty of the human capital, both masculine and feminine, of this country... No other country has such human capital.

My parents went to Italy a lot, but I didn't go with them. I can't believe that!