Quotes About Youth

I was nine when I bought my first guitar at a garage sale.

I started making beats when I was nine in my bedroom and garage.

I made my first song when I was 9 years old. Just beating on garbage cans, having people beat box.

I've been deeply involved in writing garbage since I was 16.

I was about 28-29 when I wrote my first story, and that was called 'The Garden of Abdul Gasazi.'

I try to play like I did when I was a young boy playing in my garden. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's not so good, but I try to always make sure I give my best to help the team, even if I am not having the best game myself.

Growing up in Belgium, I played football all of the time, in the garden, on the street.

Rock 'n' Roll, no roses or gardening.

I think we put far too much interest in trying to get ten to 20 year olds interested in gardening. I think you should do everything you can to try and get them interested up to the age of 10.

There was a greengrocer on Rotherfield Street off Essex Road in Islington, north London. My brother Gary worked there for a couple of years and when he moved on I took over.

I've been interested in basketball since I was a little kid - like, 3. The Bulls were my team. If you grew up in Gary, the Bulls were everybody's team.

I think it's always important to get off to a good start early, and especially with a younger team that hasn't been together that long, you want to get out of the gates hot and strong.

Rocky Horror Picture Show' was my gateway drag/drug. I was somewhere between 13 and 16 when I started going to that.

We became a really good gateway band for all the kids that went on to love My Chem or Fall Out Boy.

I am 58 and it's difficult for people to gauge my age.

We grew up with a different gauge on what pop is. Pop for us was INXS and John Farnham.

When I was 14, I felt very rundown; I had a home to go to, but I felt like I was 60 or something, older than I feel now. And I don't know if it's something that happens at 14, or whether it was adolescence or whether I was gay, or closeted gay, or whatever it was, I felt that.

My writing works best when I remember that bookish child who adored reading and gear the work toward him.

I was the kid in basketball camps wanting to see the new gear that comes out or the gear that the camps give.

This is going to sound really sad, but I didn't really have any heartthrobs when I was growing up. I was a bit of a geek.

My own personal geek culture years were when I was much younger. I collected comic books up until a certain age. I wanted to be a comic book artist when I was younger.

I loved 'Freaks and Geeks.' I don't know a better show.

My first acting role as a kid was on 'Freaks and Geeks.'

I didn't make a lot of friends in high school. It's a cruel time, and I was very geeky.