Quotes About Youth

I was not the best in my youth teams, I was not the most naturally gifted, but I gave everything to get where I was and the reward came my way.

David Cromer, from Chicago, I think is the most gifted young director in America.

There's so much pressure on kids to perform and to be the best they can be, and particularly with boys: boys who are the gifted ones get loaded with an awful lot of expectation and self-expectation, and that's really hard for an 18 year old.

At 20, I was married, working as an auto mechanic, and living in Gainesville. I was doing Against Me!, but it wasn't by any means a full-time gig.

I had gigged so much from the age of 11 to 20 that I got to a stage where I actually got less nervous the bigger the gig. But you need those butterflies: they make you feel alive.

When I was managing Boyzone and Westlife there were screaming girls every night. If there wasn't a high-piched screaming, it was a bad gig. I got used to it.

I wasn't allowed to ever have a drink or go into a bar, or even see a non-Christian gig when I was younger.

I went to see my first gig when I was 15 - it was Loyle Carner at Shepherd's Bush - and I remember just feeling the bass in my feet and in my body. I was so energised.

As a teenager, I used to carry the equipment for Gary's band, so I was kind of like his roadie. Every night after a gig, I'd go to bed dreaming of being in the band myself.

It's a good giggle to look back at yourself in your 20s. You thought you were so fierce and fabulous, and it's just embarrassing.

I've always gone to gigs; I remember before I passed my driving test I'd convince various family members or friends' parents to take us to Dundee or Edinburgh to see James or A-ha.

By the time I was about 15, I was out playing gigs and knew I was going to be a musician.

What do you know when you're 19? I was just stomping around doing gigs.

Whenever a young comic asks me for advice I only have two things to say. One is to try and do what you think is genuinely funny and the other is just do loads of gigs.

At 69, I got the girl! And it wasn't a 68-year-old girl, either.

I was always the girl who had that baby face.

It's just fun just being a girl.

At Girl Scouts, we create leaders.

We like to say we hope to be like the Girl Scouts of technology, having many different chapters in many different states as well as many different countries.

I had a really hot girlfriend in high school and I'd get into fights over that. And by the time I got into high school, I was moved around into a lot of schools, so I was getting into fights in high school.

So many girls and guys want to find a girlfriend and settle down. But it's fun to be single.

When I was fifteen, I spent three weeks driving all over Brooklyn with a guy who was following his girlfriend.

When I was 20, I moved up to Boston with my girlfriend, who's now my wife. She went to grad school, and I met a bunch of cool friends there.

I broke up with my first girlfriend because I was out of love. I was crushing so hard on her for a whole year, and I finally I got to be with her, and the interest vanished. I'm a terrible person. I was 17, and she was in my class.