Quotes About Youth

I can't see why people call me a bad influence. I meet a lot of kids who are into music. I spend as much time as I can with them. I listen to their demos, and I'm encouraging.

John Denver I listened to when I was in elementary school.

I lived in L.A. for a few months. It seemed like no one there had parents. Or if they did have parents, they would deny it.

I was eleven and I wanted to play it because it was in my blood. It was a feeling I couldn't deny.

I wasn't a model schoolboy. Of course, I was forced to sit through Shakespeare and I really got into some of it, though it depended on who was reading it out.

I did commercials since I was 16, and that's kind of acting, depending on what you're selling.

I don't know how many 19 year-olds are playing in the Championship, there's certainly not any playing in the Premiership. It depends on what type of character you are really.

I was depressed a lot as a kid, and I was really sad and wouldn't be able to get out of bed.

I didn't have a horrible life as a teenager but I was certainly depressed and had some pain in my life at that time. I've spent a lot of time thinking back on that time in my life. I think I am just fascinated by it.

I was a really, really depressed kid.

As a kid, I was depressed and riddled with anxiety. The bottom dropped out when I was 19.

When you are young you can be a bit nonchalant - it's cool to be depressed, and maybe a bit dark.

I had a lot of depression as a kid.

No child should be deprived the opportunity to excel.

Young people like things that are fresh and new. If something does seem fatigued, or derivative, they're going to let you know.

When I was 15, Dad left the family for good. I didn't want to believe it at the time, but the fact was that he deserted us kids and abandoned Mom after 25 years of marriage.

There are so many good, young bands out there who aren't getting the attention they deserve.

Kids deserve arts, and it's just as important as science, math, history, English or athletics.

There is nothing wrong with students demanding free education, and, in fact, it is something that our children deserve.

Literature taught me that I wasn't alone, that I could become a writer if I worked at it, that my story mattered. Whether a young reader becomes a writer or not, they deserve to know that their story, whatever it may be, is important.

Every kid in our state deserves an opportunity for success.

Ever since I was young I loved making things and being part of the design process.

I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12.

I wanted to be a set designer when I was young.