Quotes About Youth

As a kid, sometimes you have nobody to turn to. I could always go back to some of the sermons and talk to myself in a righteous manner and put that in a song.

When you are 25, everything comes easy to you. When you get past 35, every training session is a sacrifice. I can't see myself doing that.

Every single year, I have a routine of setting goals and there is only so much you can do at youth level.

The first election I remember was Dewey Truman in '48. I was, I guess, seven years old.

I'd gone professional when I was about seventeen.

I remember being 12 or 13 and reading 'Seventeen' and 'CosmoGirl.' They were all about self-improvement.

I've been an actor since the age of seventeen.

I was really into Michelangelo in seventh and eighth grade.

I got into a fight in my 10th-grade year, and it was on ESPN. It was a mistake, and you learn from it. Starting from the seventh grade, everything's been magnified like that. It's kind of like you have no childhood.

I like necklaces that are short, the way skateboarders used to wear them in the seventies.

'Ghoul' was what my world looked like, growing up in the late Seventies and early Eighties, and what I thought it looked like. A lot of my personal experiences went into it.

My parents were severe alcoholics. When I was about 17 years old, I finally left home. It wasn't a choice that I made; it was basically like my parents were gone.

Sex education has to do with what's in people's head.

Sex and drugs and rock and roll.

I wasn't a very academic kid, and music was the way for all that feeling and angst and sex and love and anger to be channelled.

Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.

Let's make sure that we are working for age-appropriate sex education in our school system.

I don't really remember a whole lot of sex, drugs and rock n' roll, really.

You don't walk like other boys. You don't talk like other boys. But at six, you are not thinking about your sexuality.

I think at 17, if I'd have seen a show that was really geared towards a woman's sexuality and her finding that and not the male, and not the woman being sexualized, it would have been so interesting to see that growing up.

In many ways, when you're young and sexy, it's very annoying to be whistled at and to have someone always trying to attract your attention, but now when it happens I find myself registering the fact almost warmly.

I want to feel sexy and pretty and young as long as I can.

I always used the free room that the G.D.R. allowed me... There was no shadow over my childhood.

I'm into people, especially kids and making sure they have a fair shake and making sure they reach their potential. So that's important to me.