Quotes about "Youth & Coming of Age"

I worshiped Judd Nelson in 'The Breakfast Club' growing up. I must've seen that movie 100 times. ”

There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups... but they're coming for ya. It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb. ”

I always had games on Saturdays as I was growing up. ”

I was on the snowboard team at my school, but that was the only sports team I was on. I played soccer growing up in elementary school. ”

I've got to be honest and say that, growing up, I wasn't a big sports guy, but I love the camaraderie. I just love people getting together, fighting for a team and getting super-emotional about it. ”

When I was a kid growing up, I used to watch 'DuckTales.' ”

I love coming of age stories that have struggle. ”

When I'm singing, it's a mixture of my innocence in the projects, my mom and dad. It's all the good and the bad, the laughs and the frowns that I went through and seen other people go through. Then you be trying to write it. Whatever's coming out, you try and make it all cool. ”

Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly. ”

When I was growing in the Callope project, we had an oval parkway. Pavement ran around this whole thing. We'd skate or ride bicycles. There were benches and trees out there. It was paradise to us. They finished building it the same year I was born. ”