Quotes About Youth

In America, kids would go to college and get out and buy a second-hand car and go across the country and discover America. I never did that; I went from New York to Paris, and New York was my America.

The next thing that happened to me was that I, we, were living in Paris where I then grew up.

Heading to Paris when I was 17 and modelling exposed me to high fashion, which influenced me to dress on-trend - not extravagantly, but always in fashion.

As a younger actor, I had delusions. I would dream of Scorsese and De Niro; I would meet people, and it would be like this, and it would change moviemaking in France, and Paris would become the center of the world.

Paris is an old and traditional place; it needs new blood.

I was 14. I went to see a production of 'Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris,' and when they got to that final song, 'If We Only Have Love,' it was like the top of my head had blown off.

My first concert I can remember was AC/DC when I was 9 years old, in Paris. It's a good first one!

When I was in 8th grade, I saw Branagh's 'Henry V' in the Paris Theater, and it changed my life.

I had an opportunity to play for Paris St-Germain when I was younger and it's important for me to represent a club with that amount of history because of the type of footballer I am.

I left school when I was 14 to go into Danish films. When I was 17, I went to Paris to make my fortune.

When I first moved to Paris, I worked as an au pair for two girls aged eight and 11.

I danced with the Ballet Russe in Paris when I was 16 and did not need a companion.

As a kid growing up, I really hated being alone. I was always that kid that was like, 'Do you want to hang out? Let's go to the mall. Let's go to the movies. Let's go to the park.' I would call people and call people and call people. If I was alone when I wasn't at school, then there was something wrong.

I started driving when I was really young, at the age of 15-16. It just came naturally to me because I learnt it on my own by observing others. Of course, I was never allowed to drive until I was 18, but I would park my parents' car at every given opportunity.

Jersey is always with me. I was one of the lucky ones. Asbury Park is just the greatest place in the world to spend your childhood.

I look at the car park and myself and Dave Watson come in with our old cars, and these young lads come in with their new Porches. I think that society has changed, there seems to be a lack of respect nowadays.

I was one of the first artists to make a buzz about '106 & Park.' If it wasn't for that show, I wouldn't be the entertainer that I am today.

I had my first real kiss at Magic Mountain on a park bench. Not the most romantic thing ever.

When I was a kid, I was hugely impacted by 'Jurassic Park.' I think I was just the right age when that movie came out, and I remember running around my town like a Velociraptor.

It's like Liverpool. Everybody went for the music. All the young musicians seemed to gravitate to Asbury Park.

When I saw 'Jurassic Park' as a kid, that was the first time I thought about making movies for a living.

When I was in high school, the energy in hip-hop at that point was the park energy... I was just trying to develop my style at that point, and I think, when you're trying to find your style, you find yourself.

I used to wake up before school when my mom was already at work. That's where I first heard a lot of music, like All Time Low, Fall Out Boy, Miley Cyrus, Linkin Park.

I feel like I lived my life in one of three places: at Indian Hill Park, at a Manasquan school or at the beach.