Quotes About Youth

When I was young, I wanted to do something more low-key, like become a drummer in a rock band.

I started playing guitar when I was 12 and probably from that age knew that I wanted to make music and make my own music. Playing with other bands like the Polyphonic Spree and Sufjan Stevens was more like an apprenticeship for me than anything.

I went to college in Iowa for a little bit and tried to get some bands together there. That was about a year of my life.

I've played drums in bands since I was 16.

I started writing when I was 13. I got my first electric guitar when I was 13, but I'd always been singing. I had my first little acoustic when I was six. But I started being in bands when I was 13.

I was in a lot of bands growing up.

When you're young, you just go banging about, but you're more sensitive as you grow older.

I don't want to be a 66-year-old man banging on youth, because that's not my agenda.

I arrived in Bangkok in 1980: I was 23 years old, and it changed my life.

I didn't actually start playing the banjo until I was in high school.

I was essentially bankrupt at the age of 16. That almost near-death experience kind of built the next success for me in business.

For us, church was kind of the way that we found our first entry into community in Arkansas. My parents would drop us off at the First Baptist Church of Lincoln so that we would make friends and we would learn English.

Barack Obama embraced hip-hop, man. That's the way he got through to kids.

I am one of the barbarians - I love rock and roll.

When I was 17 Sevilla came for me. At 18 Valencia, at 19 Villareal before Barcelona.

From ages 10 to 12 or so, I barely remember anything.

I can barely remember what I was like 36 years ago when I was 21 years old.

At 26, I barely knew who I was.

I started playing in bars when I was about 15 years old, and there are things that I saw early on that really shaped who I am.

I played baseball growing up, second base, and then when I got to high school,it just didn't exist there.

I used to play second base, leftfield and centerfield.

I always played sports when I was young. I played football and baseball for eight years. I loved football.

My main lucky number is 9. That was my baseball number in high school. My other lucky number is 3, because that's the one I wore before I got to high school and had to pick a different one.

I love baseball - 'Moneyball' was my favorite book when I was 13.