Quotes About Youth

I used to tell people when I was 15 or 16 that I'd never be that girl who goes through this, gets her heart broken, falls for this guy, but I ended up being her.

When I was 12, I wrote a legit song - about having my heart broken, of course, because I was 12 years old going on 40. I sang the song for my mom, and she asked, 'Where did you get that song?' I told her I wrote it, and she said, 'Really?' She looked at my grandparents and just said, 'Oh, boy.'

Green Day is a band that you always felt had something to say, whether it was about the times or love or heartache.

I pretended to be super-cool and not be bothered by things and play off any kind of heartache when I was younger, for sure.

If you would have told me when I was a kid that I would be sitting here with an ACC championship and been drafted in the fourth round of the Major League Baseball draft, I would have taken it in a heartbeat.

When you're 16 or 17, I think like most people that age, the first time you experience certain things in life, whether it's heartbreak or death or love, obviously it's going to seem like a much bigger deal.

I wasn't in any super duper serious relationships growing up, but yeah, I know what that heartbreak feels like.

When you are in the 20-30 age group, you experience things; your voice fully develops, and you experience heartbreak. That's what happened with me, so whenever I sing, I use my experiences.

I started writing songs at eight. Heartbreak songs - don't ask me why. It was the stuff I used to hear, so I imitated it. I used to write songs about guys cheating. Could you imagine!

The awful thing, as a kid reading, was that you came to the end of the story, and that was it. I mean, it would be heartbreaking that there was no more of it.

Garage has been the big influence in my life. It was the first music that I started MCing to and I really used to look up to Heartless Crew.

In 'Main Prem' I had to put myself into the hearts of young lovers.

We want to reach out to the young people. We want the hearts of the young people to turn to God.

I don't really think of myself as a heartthrob. I've got a lot of brothers, and there's a natural competitiveness between us when it comes to girls. If I said something about being a heartthrob, then they would bring me straight back down to earth!

The thing about being a kid is you're going to make mistakes in the heat of the moment.

My first love was Heath Ledger.

I wrote a piece for the school literary magazine that now makes me think: 'My God in Heaven, this is just the worst drivel.'

I want to keep my voice young, with nothing heavy.

I was heavy as a kid. I mean, I kind of got it together for a while there in my 20s and early 30s.

When you're growing up, you realize you've got a lot of heavy things on your shoulders.

When I first went to Fitzroy Lodge, I said I was going to be heavyweight champion of the world and retire when I was 30. This is when I was 10.

I didn't know how this would play out when I was a kid. I knew I wanted to play ball, be a paleontologist, and write poetry. I thought, 'Heck, where will I find the time? Well, football comes first, and I'll just find some time for poetry, and paleontology can come at the end.' I made this plan at 14, and dang, it's all coming together.

One of those chubby kids that would do something athletic and everybody would look at me and say, 'What the heck? Did that kid just do that?' That's the kind of chubby kid I was.

I thought I wanted to be on ESPN, but I didn't know what the heck it was. I knew it was sports television, but we didn't have it. We didn't really watch TV growing up.