Quotes About Youth

Back then, as a kid, you made a choice of who you liked, and it was either us or 'Take That.' And if you liked 'East 17', it showed you knew what was going on, you were clued up, had better taste in music.

I still stand behind the stuff I did early on, but I was on a record label, and I didn't have a lot of creative control. Another side of that is just being young and having bad taste. There was plenty of that, too.

I write for young people because I like them and because I think they are important. Children's books can be mind-stretchers and imagination-ticklers and builders of good taste in a way that adult books cannot, because young people usually come to books with more open minds. It's exciting to be able to contribute to that in a small way.

I don't hate on the whole EDM thing happening in America because, although the music is not of my taste - a little bit brash for me - I think it's also introducing a lot of young people to dance music, and then they're discovering better dance music through it.

Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.

Since the dawn of recorded music, every generation has felt shocked by the musical tastes of the next.

The people at MTV are encouraged to be very confrontational and declarative about their tastes.

My tattoo is a phoenix. I got the first when I was 16. I hid it for years.

I got my first piercing at the age of 13, my first tattoo at the age of 15.

I had a tattoo of Jaden Smith. A very accurate portrait of a 15-year-old Jaden Smith.

I got my first tattoo when I was 16 years old and I went with my mom to get it done - she has a bunch too so we're tattoo buddies now.

One of the series I like is D.M. Cornish's 'Monster Blood Tattoo,' in which he creates a whole language. Kids who are reading that are building a language in their heads. There's no real cognitive difference. I think kids are excited by language, and they're not always given credit for that.

My first tattoo was when I was 14. I was a bit young, like. I was a big lad so they didn't question my age at the time.

I'd say to all kids, don't have a tattoo until you're 21.

I have this bookmark with glued-on macaroni. I made it in the fourth grade while in detention for giving a girl a tattoo using two rocks rubbed together and a stick.

When I was a kid I always liked scratching myself - making shapes, making drawings, and I always thought I would have a tattoo.

It's my ex's name. Don't tattoo names on your body, kids.

I got my first tattoo when I was 14-years-old. Unfortunately I didn't need a signature, which I probably shouldn't of got done, because, you know, it was one of my friends who was a tattoo artist.

Being from Boston, I think we have to get the 'Good Will Hunting' poster tattooed on our backs when we're like 16 or 17; it's just a rite of passage. That movie is so, so, so huge.

I am a bit of a bad boy. I have tattoos and I mess around. That's part of my image, so it's cool.

To voice one's curmudgeonly thoughts - 'I hate tattoos,' 'If that kid says 'like' even one more time, I'm going to fire him,' and such things, instantly labels one as a geezer.

A lot of guys do the pretty things. Dunking, tattoos, earrings, sagging jeans. That's the league now. They have athletic ability, but they don't know the game.

Gangs have evolved. The stereotypical gang member covered in tattoos and wearing colors does not really exist any more. There's this fear that it could be any kid, but by any kid, that means any Latino kid.

I don't even know how many tattoos I got. I got three tattoos at my first session.