Quotes About Youth

I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own.

I was meant to make music in my soul way younger than I did. I was just scared because I knew it would take more of me than anything else. But I was all into facing my fears.

I've been working in the music industry since I was 15 years old, and I feel like I've always been ahead of my time.

When I see other people out there, involved, and really giving their time and effort for the kids, then I don't mind giving my time and effort for the kids as well.

Once I could drive, I spent all my time in the city going to metal shows. I missed the first couple of Metallica shows because I was lame. By the time I got into them, they were playing places like the Kabuki.

I drive an old Camaro that I got when I was 16. And I've been known to do stupid things with my time, like Friendster.

I read two mysteries a day when I was a kid. All of Agatha Christie, all of 'Sherlock Holmes.' I've seen every single British detective show ever made.

There was a boy in my building who was my best friend when I was growing up. There was also a mysterious person on my corner who we called the Laughing Man.

To me, rock music was never meant to be safe. I think there needs to be an element of intrigue, mystery, subversiveness. Your parents should hate it.

Why do millennials like Bernie Sanders so much? I love that this is a mystery to Washington. It's the authenticity, stupid.

Sex is great until you die, but it's never as great as it was when you were a kid, when it was a mystery.

When I was younger I thought that if you were famous and successful, it would mean that you just felt happy all the time. That you would become, like, this mystical creature that people just adored. And so you would adore yourself.

I played with Baggio when I was young. I grew up with his myth, and to actually play with him was like being in a dream. I tried to hang out with him, to study how he played and to learn from him.

For a kid in London, Hollywood seems like such a mythical place.

Even as a kid, I don't think I bought into a lot of the mythology about Canada.

When you are young, you are a little naive.

We were so young when we started, quite naive and shy - we kind of knew what we were doing but didn't because we hadn't been stage schooled.

I was young and naive. I didn't have the advice I have now and made mistakes. I didn't understand it was about attitude as well as ability.

When I was 15, I was naive, looked like a grey mouse and felt second choice.

I don't know what idiocies drove me in those days, but they were naive, innocent idiocies in many ways.

That's the thing, when you play younger characters they're always less casual. You're hungrier or more naive. Those things wane in time.

What you experience in the army, aged 18 to 21, is what you take through all your life. You cross invisible lines: you shoot someone, get shot, break into people's houses. It's naive to think you won't carry anything into your life.

I grew up in Indiana. I'm a late bloomer, very naive.

At times, I might have been too young; I might have been too naive at times and didn't understand who I really was to a whole culture.