Quotes About Youth

When I tried out for cheerleader, they sneered, 'You're too good, kid,' and put me in the high-kick line instead. It was pure jealousy, if you ask me.

I was into Barbie and designer jeans.

I have a thing for just a white shirt and blue jeans. I think I grew up looking at too many GAP and Calvin Klein ads.

'Baby's Got Her Blue Jeans On' was my anthem as a child. It was about me. I was Baby.

I would have liked to grow up in Liverpool and become a rocker. I would have put my boots on, jeans and a leather jacket, and long hair and played the guitar.

I would like Madewell jeans to be the Levi's of its generation.

I look back at the 1990s with its light-wash jeans, and I'm like, 'What...?'

I love American Eagle's jeans; they fit me just right.

I grew up with four brothers. I used to play sports with them. And I liked wearing their clothes. I'd run around in T-shirts, jeans, and baseball caps.

My crew used to listen to 'Taking It to the Top' by Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince.

When I was a kid, Jeff Gordon was invincible and I probably thought he was going to race the rest of his life.

I always loved the Yardbirds when I was a kid, you know; I was always into Jeff Beck and everything.

Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck made me an Anglophile. I listened to English and Irish artists as a kid, and they were way louder, heavier, and faster than the traditional blues that I was listening to.

I really don't understand jelly shoes - those see-through, glittery, sandal-type things that girls wear. I cannot, for the life of me, understand why they were ever popular.

Jennifer Aniston is cute, but I wouldn't call her beautiful. I think that is why Cheryl Cole is so popular, because she is just so pretty and the public are starved of gorgeous people. When I was young, everybody on screen was gorgeous.

Jennifer Aniston was a lovely girl, very unspoilt.

I used to be a pretentious little jerk, running around saying 'I'm going to be an awktor.'

I was on the road with Jerry Lee Lewis when I was 15 - I can't imagine not doing it. That's what I do.

I mean, you can forget about George Bush or Jerry Falwell. You can't forget about a homeless kid.

I still remember going to school on game day with my high school jersey on.

When I was growing up, it was so embarrassing to be from Jersey.

Once you're past the age of, say, 11, you should stop idolizing athletes. You look ridiculous wearing the jersey of a guy who is younger and wealthier than you are.

I grew up in Jersey. I've been to the Jersey Shore countless times. I've lived it.

This culture is sort of antithetical in everything it says to the kids. I don't want to pick on 'Jersey Shore,' but it's pretty clear. I would tell the kids good behavior and hard work will pay off, and then they go home and watch TV and go, 'Oh, that's not true.'