Quotes About Youth

I was watching 'Space Jam' when I was a kid but that was pretty much the only thing I knew about the NBA.

Even in Jamaica, your own country, coming into youth cricket you need to be from an upscale high school or have a light skin. As you get older you get used to the culture. My club, Lucas Cricket Club, was the only one to accept black people back in the day.

I definitely know I'm going to be working a lot more with my foundation when it comes to developing the kids in Jamaica.

I lost a boyfriend over Elmore James. You know that moment when you send mixtapes at fifteen? He sent me pop hits, and I sent him Elmore James, and I never heard from him again.

When I was younger and played acoustic guitar music, I got a lot of Sheeran comparisons, along with guys like Paolo Nutini and James Morrison.

Anyone can be James Dean for a day.

I was really young, like nine, when I saw the first 'Terminator', and I was amazed by the world they created, and everything James Cameron did.

James Bond was an early favourite, although I didn't understand much of it. I read the Bible a lot, too. You might say that this was my favourite, since I seemed to read it so often.

I was the kid jamming out to the songs on the radio, and now there's hopefully kids out there jamming out to my music.

Whenever I go jamming, people are looking to cut me. The young ones learn my stuff and come play it at me, and I have to learn other stuff. I feel a lot of pressure. But it's cool. It's a good pressure.

Music became my focus. At 13, I was jamming with my mates. At 15, I was playing clubs.

Part of me just wants 'Jane' magazine back, and 'Sassy,' too.

I remember standing across from Rampage Jackson when I was younger - I watched him when I was coming up - and then I was fighting him in Japan.

I didn't understand the American fascination with the Japanese schoolgirl. No, I don't think I can, really.

Sometimes I'll dress like a boy, sometimes I'll dress like a Japanese crazy teenybopper. I have clothes from the 7th grade that I've kept and still wear.

Me and my homeboy Almighty Jay - he YBN too - we used to just be freestyling in XBOX parties.

I'm an advocate of music in schools. It's important to me that music is in as many schools as possible across this country and across the world. I think that it's a lost art form because kids aren't as exposed to it as maybe they used to be, or should be. I was exposed heavily to jazz and that's why I love it.

I don't know who's 18 years old today that, 20 years hence, is going to be a jazz fan.

I do feel a responsibility because most people like me that are my age or younger, they don't quite make it over to the jazz side. They flirt with it, but they don't quite marry it.

I played in school jazz bands and tried to start rock bands, but nobody was interested.

Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music.

I discovered flamenco when I was 14, before I even got involved with jazz music. I was so crazy about flamenco music. I wanted to be a flamenco guitar player.

I'm so jealous of people who in second grade knew what they wanted to do.

I used to get really jealous of Ron Howard as Opie on 'The Andy Griffith Show' - we were the same age. I would just think, 'God, that little kid can work, and I can't!'