Quotes About Youth

People think it's lame to be young, but it's not. And you only get to be young for so long.

I shouldn't have acted. I didn't exhibit any ability. I was one of the kids in the school play who was just mouthing words, and they weren't the actual words of the song. I was pretty lame!

In high school, I definitely fancied myself an intense guy, which is so lame.

The Rilo Kiley song 'A Better Son/Daughter' is my most requested song - especially for people who are at the age I was when I wrote it. It's sort of a mid-twenties lament.

I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

I was 11 years old, and I had been playing classical piano for three years, and suddenly the guitar came and landed in my arms. I fell in love with that instrument, and I still love it today. I love it so much.

You get older, you start meeting girls, you want to impress them. And if you happen to know an instrument, what you do is turn on the radio and try to figure out how to play popular songs.

I loved everything about show business, meeting the stars, the whole ambience. I was living every young kid's dream. I was told a pop singer's life was three years, but I was still making money seven years later.

I grew up around a lot of aggressive guys. My parents used to take me to AA meetings when I was very young. So I know aggression, I know insanity.

I think we'll make sure we have Boy Meets World reunions.

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.

It is the melancholy fate of all young legends to becoming better known for the things they did to exploit fame than the things that made them famous in the first place.

When I was 16 I had a table at home in Melbourne and I hardly ever practised.

I grew up in Melbourne.

When I was young and didn't know any English, I was drawn by the energy and power of foreign songs and their melodies.

As a kid, I could just pick up melody and harmony instinctively, and that's why I can play lots of instruments.

I applied for a job on 'Melody Maker' once.

I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom.

I was an altar boy and a choir member.

I was a homecoming king in high school! I was involved. I was a good member of the community, I thought.

I'm 16 now, I was 15 when it happened... and the encryption code wasn't in fact written by me, but written by the German member. There seems to be a bit of confusion about that part.

When I started doing movies, every crew member was older than me.

I think living my happy, open life and showing young gay kids you can be successful, you can have love in your life, you can be a contributing member of society and you can be respected - I think that's it.

I think if you're young and you're being compared with a successful family member, it's really hard to maintain any sense of self-worth and credibility.