Quotes About Youth

Often, when you're growing up, you don't know what's wrong. We don't talk openly enough about mental illness. How do you know - especially today with the incredibly high stress teens are put under during high school - if you have depression or if you have a mental illness or if you have anxiety? You don't know, because you've never seen it.

When me and my author friends who write about other difficult subject matter... when you hear from teens daily saying, 'Your book helped me or made me understand a friend better, what somebody else is going through,' you see the positive things.

Teens are dealing with the same problems now in the '90s as they did back in the '70s, the only real difference is the clothes we wear!

Normal kids in their teens want to go and date girls and do mischievous things, your hormones are jumping around, but I stayed in my bedroom in search of something.

I was really lost for a while in my teens. I was angry. But when I found music - Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell - it was a new discovery. It was a door to this other world where I wanted to be.

The truth of the matter is, beauty is a specific thing, rare and fleeting. Some of us have it in our teens, 20s and 30s and then lose it; most of us have it not at all. And that's perfectly okay. But lying to yourself that you have it when you don't seems to me simple-minded at best and psychotic at worst.

I built two forges when I was in my teens. I was just really, really into metalworking and making stuff.

Teens are not like the weird, dumb dwarves you have around your house. They are actually you when you were younger.

My focus has kind of been on teenagers, you know, and I think we've got a huge crisis right now in America, among our teens.

Oh, I had, 'No one will ever fancy me!' I had that well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. I don't mind the way I'm ageing. No reason to panic just yet. I think I look my age, and that's fine.

Teens look at cause-related efforts with some scrutiny. They know they are often a target market, but it has to make sense to them.

I was having my teens in my 30s.

Teens in the '90s had the same basic desires as they do now.

Before I was through my teens, I had been introduced and exposed to artists who would, in later years, become legendary.

I suffered from 'No one will ever fancy me!' syndrome, well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. Absolutely not.

I had a mystical experience when I was in my late teens, early 20s, and I spent years trying to recapture that.

I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were better. I work alongside my dad, you see. I've thought that films were better since I was a kid.

In my teens, I fell in love with the movies.

I am not sure how old I was when I began to worry about being saved, but it was sometime in my early teens.

That's the thing that I've always kind of kept in the back of my head in writing about teens, that everything is so important, all the time, every day. Every day of your life, you're changing and making decisions and everything is an emergency to you.

I think teens are drawn to these speculative books that portray what might happen and what could happen.

All generations of teens have it hard, I think. Each society and century has its struggles that the others can't compare to.

Songwriting was always my 'plan B'. I didn't even know that songwriting was a job until my late teens!

I had never been attracted to younger guys. I had, from my late teens, always liked men who were older than me.