Quotes About Youth

Some folks believe that hardship breeds artistic creativity. I don't buy it. One can put up with poverty for a while when one is young, but it will inevitably wear a person down.

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name.

There isn't a lot of poverty literature in the young-adult world. And I don't know why that is, but I think certainly I felt a gap.

Many girls do not go to school because of poverty.

I tried to be a goth for a while. I'd pour baby powder on my face and paint my lips black, but that didn't last long. I thought I looked cool at the time. But then you look back and wonder, 'Why did anyone let me out of the house looking like that?'

Innocence can be more powerful than experience.

I have always said that innocence is much more powerful than experience.

It's weird: The leader of the Conservative Party in England is two years younger than me, and I still don't really feel like a responsible adult.

Straight out of college, I worked at the Conservative Party but that was just a couple of years.

I never really considered myself attractive. I was always kind of gangly in school.

I never considered a career in broadcasting, not even as a kid.

In England, 'Doctor Who' has always been considered a children's show, at least by children.

I was not considered a kid that would be successful in my career.

Why should 20-year-olds only be considered sexy? I think we get better with age.

I've been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time.

When you're just 21, as many of my players are now, it is difficult to consistently perform.

I feel like as a young player you have to play consistently because you're going to make mistakes. If you make mistakes you have to keep playing to learn from mistakes.

I'm still constantly thinking of ideas. I don't feel 90. I think I'm about 12.

I saved $8,000 and created a construction company when I was 25.

I thought I'd be a professional rugby player or go to university and get some degree in construction.

But in my college years it got to the point where my friends and I didn't do anything without consuming a massive amount of alcohol before we went anywhere or did anything, and you know that.

Kids are absolutely starved for positive adult contact.

As a kid, I loved contact sports, especially American football and boxing.

I started writing songs for youth theater and stuff, and so it's really writing music for the stage that started me out, but then I eventually went to music college and did a two-year course in contemporary music and then just played in endless bands, cover bands, jazz bands.