Quotes About Youth

I was told so many times when I was a kid, 'I can't be friends with you, you're too intense, you're too sad all the time.' I really thought that when I made the first album that everyone would understand me, all the people who weren't my friends would become my friends.

I'm a Bieber fan, man! That kid is ill!

I wasn't a bad kid. My dad left when I was young, so I didn't have much discipline, not that I'm making excuses. I was always out and about and had a good time as a kid, so I've done alright.

I was not a very fearful kid, really.

As a kid growing up in California, I collected autographs.

As a kid, I thought of myself as a funny person who secretly wanted to be serious, but now I think maybe I'm a serious person who secretly wants to be funny.

It was very hard for me as a kid to get through as a footballer in Uruguay.

I was gaga about dinosaurs as a kid.

I loved football as a kid.

I was a bookish kid, not really athletic.

When I was a kid, I loved 'Little Women.'

I was just a kid in love with hip hop music. I love music. I love the culture. I wanted to be a part of it in any way.

I was never cool as a kid.

I was just a bright, driven kid.

When I was a little kid, I wanted to be an actor.

I was perpetually this B-minus kid vacillating between eagerness and depression. I wasn't a bad kid, and I definitely wasn't aggressive, but I was a sad kid.

As a kid I was creative.

I'm saying One Direction are brilliant! And I'm not kidding. Because their songs are really good.

My advice to young people - wait until it's your turn. Just kidding, sorta.

You know, you've got to be careful with how you educate your kids in rock'n'roll fashion.

Kids deserve the right to think that they can change the world.

I never bothered with cars. I was probably one of the few kids in school who didn't run around with hot-rod magazines. As I would be at home fiddling with my guitar, they would be fiddling with a car engine.

Kids instinctively know - although they will argue to the contrary - that they really are not mature enough to make good decisions on some important issues.

By no means could I play at the level of these kids who play in the NHL now but as 50-year-olds go, I feel really good and I feel blessed that I'm still healthy.