Quotes About Youth

I think my generation is obsessed with instant gratification. We want everything now, now, now.

I've been obsessed with clothes since I was a little boy.

I went to art school when I was little. I took ballet lessons. I played a little kick ball. I was sort of into everything because I had too much energy and I didn't know where to put it. When I was a preteen, I got into singing, and became really obsessed with it.

Even when I was in my 20s and at my most beautiful, I was never obsessed with my looks. I didn't dye my hair or wear make-up.

I don't know why people are so obsessed with age anyway. I mean, 90 is the new 70; 70 is the new 50 and 50 is the new 40; so the whole act-your-age thing? Only up to a point.

I was obsessed with football when I was growing up.

The very first song I wrote was about a boy that I was obsessed with.

When I was younger I was obsessed with 'Star 80,' and it's just a great movie - I think I saw it three times in the theater.

I grew up obsessed with science fiction, and when I was really young, I wanted to be a scientist.

Growing up, I was obsessed with Leonardo DiCaprio.

I got obsessed with makeup and makeup artists when I was young, with people like Kevyn Aucoin.

I was actually under a lot of heaviness when I was younger. I thought of myself as an old soul. I was very obsessed with death. Basically, I didn't really have a youth - I sublimated all that into my identity and my music.

I was obsessed with fashion when I was young. I thought fashion meant fashion design, and I thought I wanted to be a designer at some point.

I had this total obsession that I would have my first movie at the Empire when I was 24, so it was a big disappointment that it didn't happen.

Maybe this whole obsession about colouring our hair is about our inability to grow up. To let go of the fact we aren't children any more, and the whole thing about changing our faces and looking young, and 60 being the new 40, is maybe we don't want to let go of our childhood.

My association with Delhi goes way back... After finishing high school in Punjab, I moved here to chase my passion and obsession for music.

I modelled in my 20s, and it was an obsessive time. I was under pressure to look a certain way.

I definitely wanted a Ferrari 328 - I was obsessive about cars as a kid.

I will admit I am quite obsessive about the world of anti-ageing.

I was obsessive and made my parents take me to the hairdressers way more often than I needed to.

I think that to acknowledge a new generation is to acknowledge some degree of obsolescence in yourself, and that is very hard to do and often comes with undeniable anger.

That's where I'll get the love in my heart: from, the fact that little young guys can look at the obstacles that I had to go through to become a Hall of Famer and know it's not so bad when it comes to them trying to accomplish the same goal.

I wasn't interested in sport or anything obvious, so I didn't stand out. I was interested in music, but I couldn't read music, so I wasn't allowed to do the GCSE. I was interested in painting, but no one's interested in a 16-year-old boy who's interested in painting. I wanted to get out of school very, very quickly.

At age 12, it was obvious. I had to go to Space Camp.