Quotes About Youth

That's part of what made me interested in theater as a kid. It made it acceptable to be a man for an hour onstage.

It's not about me. It's about what I'm doing for kids. When I walk out onstage, there's 15,000 kids that, to me, represent potential.

Sometimes in my mind I still think I'm 16 onstage and my body tells me that I'm not 16 anymore.

If they could cut off my head and put it onto another body that was, like, 20 years old, I would do that.

I've been really trying to put people onto, like, my sound since I was, like, 17, 16.

I think I was 10 or 11 years old. I think the first song I learned about then was 'Open Arms.' Then, when I got tired of listening to 'Open Arms,' I borrowed my friend's Journey album, 'Escape,' and tried to listen to every song.

I grew up black in segregated America, where it was hard to find an open door. It's harder now for young blacks to find a closed one.

I have found that children are the most open-minded of all my audiences. They are not set in their ways. They are open to ideas.

I loved reading when I was young. I was just completely taken by stories. And I remember taking that into English literature at school and taking that into Shakespeare and finding that opened up a whole world of self-expression to me that I didn't have access to previously.

'I Get Around' came on one day. I'd never heard the Beach Boys before. The sound was so fresh to me. That was the first time when I truly was gripped by the power of music. It opened my eyes to the heights that music can achieve.

One of my first big shows, I opened up for Chris Brown; I was about 10 years old, and Chris Brown was just big; he still is one of my idols now.

All the Enid Blyton books - they opened my eyes to a bunch of kids living a life that was so far away from mine.

I've always been very business-oriented, ever since I was, like, eight years old and I opened my first bank account.

Growing up I played in garage bands and cover bands with my older brother, and he got us a gig opening up for some hippie jam band. I was 15. I felt like such an adult!

I've seen 13, 14-year-olds opening CDs as though they're records from the 1920s, going 'Look at this - there's a little book!'... That makes me think the format has probably had its day.

When you're 14, 15, and you get together and start making a noise, it is the world opening up. You have that indestructible feeling when you're young. But your ambitions when you are 13 are different when you're 25. By that time, your ambition isn't to be a star anymore; it's to make a living doing music.

My character in 'Mr. Holland's Opus' was kind of coming of age, learning about a world that was opening up to her.

I think Maine needs people. It needs diversity. It needs to be able to respect people. Openness is crucial for this state because we don't want to be known for having the oldest state in the nation. We want young families.

Being out there, as a 22-year-old, it opens your eyes up to the highest level of the sport. It can only do good things.

I feel like it's a real shame that my generation doesn't make an appearance at the opera.

I decided I was going to be an opera star. I was about 12.

I wrote my own pop songs and sang one of them when I went into a stupid beauty competition when I was 16. That was my public debut, and it made my mother even more determined that I should go into opera!

I sang opera for over four years when I was younger.

I was a huge Operation Ivy fan.