Quotes About Youth

In your 20s, you're checking your bank account to make sure you're not broke. In your 30s, you're looking at yourself and realizing you're broken.

Seeing young people caring about sound again and realizing that it's not cool to not have good sound, that means a lot.

I think in the experience of growing up and realizing who you are, what your place in the world is can be quite scary.

All I know is it was very easy for us to write the Barb character and I think that, you know, Shannon Purser - who had never acted before - just did such a brilliant job realizing her. And, again, without very many lines - 25 lines. And I think everyone feels like either they knew this girl or they were this girl.

Acting was just outside of the realm of possibility for me. I grew up in L.A. and around Hollywood but I literally never, honestly, considered it.

I didn't set out to be a singer. Actually, the earliest creative efforts I made were drawings copied from comics we got every week at the newsagent, or rearranging photos I cut out and pasted in scrapbooks.

When you're young, you don't have much sense. You don't have any reasoning power. You don't have any ability to take a blow, an insult, a hurt in the right way. There is no way a child can do that. All a child can do is feel the pang of it, the heartache of it.

I look at where I've come from and realize that I'm lucky to make it out. I was a mischievous kid and I understand the whole reasoning of youth today because I didn't have much to do in the afternoon after school.

One of the reasons I get so much joy out of my own children's childhoods is that I'm having my first childhood myself.

Kids and adults have sex for many, many reasons... Put out a question box.

The reasons kids get into trouble in one way or another is because - Who ever told them they were special?

It's true that I've never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.

I remember running down the hallway screaming 'We're Not Gonna Take It.' It was really one of those childhood anthems that really stirred you up and made you want to rebel.

It's natural to want to rebel against what your parents do.

When I was younger, I just thought that my plans were probably going to be more exciting than my parents' plans or the establishment. I sort of got by on being a little bit of a rebel.

I wouldn't say I was a rebel as such, but I certainly wasn't right at school.

I was a real rebel. I got expelled.

I wasn't a rebel.

What I find interesting as a 40-year-old is the idea of trying to be a part of a pronounced, continuing independent culture. The basic tenet of America is that you rebel and then you get real.

You have to give kids something to rebel against. You can't like their music - you have to call it noise. It's incumbent on a parent.

I was a rebel and I wanted to do something that nobody else did, and nobody else played the cello. Also, I was also a small kid and I liked the fact that it was big.

I was a rebel. I went to Carmel Convent in Delhi where I was a complete rebel. I thought I was 12 going on 18. I wanted to go out with friends older to me, stay out late - my parents were horrified. It was then that we began having our first disagreements.

I wanted to be a rebel so badly.

The generation that comes next is always going to rebel against the generation that came before, and they're always going to be at odds with each other.