Quotes About Youth

The cast of 'Lemonade Mouth' was picked so perfectly. A lot of people see us as a band on camera, but not a lot of people know that Lemonade Mouth was a band off-camera, too.

I started writing songs when I was 10. It was a natural way to express myself as a kid. It wasn't until I started listening to jazz, joined the choir and picked up a guitar that my little hobby became something far more serious.

No one picked on me for my lunch money. Probably because it was the 1980s and no one had lunch money.

I picked up the guitar at 11, but even before then, I was writing songs on the organ.

I was the little kid growing up. I wasn't picked on because, honestly, I was fast, so I could run away from the bullies.

I look at some of my early stuff - back when I was 12 or 13 years old - and I was already doing cross-hatching back then. I don't know where I picked that up. I think I was in a hurry, and I wanted to shade something really fast, and I tried cross-hatching a shadow.

I was the girl in the black leather jacket with the black fingernails, picked up after school by guys with loud cars and motorcycles. I carried straight-A grades, but I had a little trouble with rules. I tended to have a bit of an authority problem.

I used to do a Saturday drama group called Young Blood Theatre Company with school-friends in west London - nothing to do with my mum and dad. A casting director came to pick people out for a new BBC children's series called 'MI High.' She picked me, I auditioned, and I got the job.

I didn't think of football growing up. This wasn't my career, something I chose. It was something I was picked in.

I started playing guitar when I was, like, 5, and I picked up playing drums when I was 6 years old.

I picked up the guitar when I was 4, and from then, I could never be bored.

The first band I was ever in, I played guitar. We did Gary Glitter and Green Day covers at the time. We were called Fizz. I have no idea why we picked that. We were, like, 12 years old.

While I was in school, a local magazine picked the 10 best students, and they picked me and profiled me in the magazine.

I never had any expectations. When I was 11, I just wanted to play for England. I didn't know when it would happen, how it would happen. I picked that dream, and I wanted that dream.

I remember my first Christmas with Leeds, training Christmas Day. I wasn't old enough to drive yet - so I had to get picked up and taken in!

My brother was a left-hander. When I was young, my father would say take your brother's gloves and pads and play, so I picked up the bat left-handed.

Whenever I used to do sports at school, there were those children who were picked last. I just wasn't picked at all.

When I was much younger I tried to play guitar and bass first. Drums were just the easiest thing for me to play. I picked it up really quickly.

I didn't know what a boy was until I was about 18. I wasn't in the cool group at all. We weren't cool, but we weren't nerdy enough to be picked on. So we were just in our own little bubble.

From the time I was very little and I first picked up a ball, in the back of my head I thought I would coach the game.

I've been trying to prove myself since I picked up this brown ball at the age of 7.

When I was 7, we moved to Manasquan, where I picked up the game of basketball.

I didn't do very well at school - teachers picked on me, I'm sure of it - and I'd stay out all hours of the night with my mates.

It wasn't until high school that I realized Avenged Sevenfold was picking up locally.