Quotes About Youth

I grew up sailing in the North Sea.

I grew up a little north of New York City and went to high school at Regis, an all-boys tuition-free high school in Manhattan.

High school is such a shared experience in North American culture.

When I was a young lad just out of college at the North Carolina School of the Arts, I directed several plays that I wrote. It was essential theater, meaning we had no money, so our set may be six stools and two chairs and eight cream pies.

I grew up with two cousins from North Dakota who were junior national champions. They're a lot older than me and I looked up to them as my older brothers.

At 14, I was in my own little classic rock country band. Then, after high school, I started another band called Northern Comfort. That was based out of Chico, Calif.

I grew up in Northern California, and theater is all there was. I didn't know how to go about starting a career when I was 10.

I grew up in Northern California, all I ever did was race and that's all I was focused on.

My dad was a keen actor when he was young; my auntie is heavily involved in amateur dramatics back in Northern Ireland, and my great aunt was a woman called Greer Garson.

When I started watching movies, I saw a lot of Hitchcock films. When I was 10, I saw 'North by Northwest' and movies like that.

I did a lot of musicals when I was younger. And then I went to Northwestern University, and I did more musicals. I went on to do more work in Chicago, and then while I was in college, I got flown out to Los Angeles to do a screen test for 'Back to the Future.' When I got to Los Angeles, I was like, 'Hmmm, this is different.'

I broke my nose and got a concussion when I was 13.

The bad part about growing older is I'm going bald. The good part is my nose seems to be getting shorter.

Smelling a crayon takes you right back to childhood. When I need to go back in time, I put it under my nose and take another hit.

I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.

I think whatever generation you're in has a nostalgia for the generations past and the generations you weren't in.

I'm not nostalgic for my glory days in college. It was lame for me. Probably because I had no friends.

My goal in music is to create nostalgic moments.

'Nostalgic' was just all my influences and me just being like, 'Yo, I'm going to be the hardest one out of everybody.'

I started finishing 'Nostalgic' while trying to graduate at the same time. I graduated from high school, got my diploma, and my life just started when I completed 'Nostalgic 64.'

I want my music to make you reminiscent or nostalgic of your childhood, or take you back to a better place.

I'm not sure whether it counts as a talent, but I love playing 'Magic: The Gathering.' It's mathematical and intellectually challenging, and makes me feel nostalgic for when I played as a kid.

And I mean, I watched all of 'Friends' in college. I liked it growing up, and it's a very nostalgic show for me.

You have to let kids be kids. Robbing them of their childhood and/or adolescence is not fair.