Quotes About Youth

When I was a kid I didn't watch TV that was targeted specifically at me. I watched 'The Day Today,' 'Shooting Stars,' 'Father Ted.'

When I was younger, I used to watch Ohio State and Rutgers a lot. Definitely watching Ohio State and Jim Tressel and Troy Smith and Ted Ginn, definitely watched Rutgers with Ray Rice and Tiquan Underwood, all of those guys.

My background was Rude Boys, Teddy Boys, rockabillys and skinheads. I was into reggae and Blondie and The Cure, and especially The Specials - these black and white guys getting it together. Extreme personalities. Extreme talent.

Growing up in Oakland, we did things like white t-shirt, blue jeans and Nikes. That was my get down, how I was going to rock. And if you look at me right now, I'm pretty much black tee, blue jeans and some sneakers.

The first sport I played was baseball. I remember being on the Little League team and someone pitching the ball to me for the first time. I was ready to no longer hit the ball off the tee, and an adult pitched it to me underhand.

Young people really want you to give them a road map, and they will follow it to a tee. If you tell them, 'These are the eight steps you have to take to be successful,' they will do all eight very earnestly.

To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.

Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.

I got through my teen years by being a bit of a clown.

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.

'Catcher in the Rye.' I feel like any brooding teen loves that book.

I was considered chubby as a teen.

I became a teen idol. At the time, it embarrassed me.

Teen pregnancy went way down in the '90s, and 75 percent of it was because of increased use of contraception.

As a teen, I was both anorexic and bulimic.

I was a teen star. That's disgusting enough.

When I was a teen, I would draw a really, really long line around my eyes with eyeliner, like Lola Flores.

I experimented as a teen, and had some hellish hairstyles - way too many perms and cheap hairspray!

I started writing when I was in school. I wrote essays and in my teen years I used to write sorrowful sad stories and poems as you do at the age.

N.E.R.D. was also from - not too far from where I was from growing up. For a lot of people who make music, that was a huge influence in teen years.

There's a freshness to the approach of teen chefs. They're lighthearted, and they're not afraid to take risks.

When I found out I had to take off my shirt in 'Teen' movie, I panicked and hit the gym. I was like, 'It's going to be on film, documented, for my children to see. I can't be 140 pounds. I need to put on a little bit of muscle.'

It's hard being homeless at any age, but at 16 years old? I can't even imagine. When you're a homeless teen, how do you build a future or have any sort of life?