Quotes about "Youth & Coming of Age"

If I could go back in time, I'd return to when my parents were alive and appreciate them more than I did when I was growing up. ”

A song about post-teenage angst like 'Mad World' seems to be permanently relevant. ”

Mad World' hasn't dated because it's expressive of a period I call the teenage menopause, where your hormones are going crazy as you're leaving childhood. Your fingers are on the cliff and you're about to drop off, but somehow you cling on. ”

While growing up in Birmingham around a lot of West Indian people, reggae and calypso were big influences early on but Otis Redding was the one person who made me wanna sing myself. ”

I was surrounded by music in my family, surrounded by people who sang songs - every single person I knew as a child growing up had one, two, three songs they knew from start to finish. ”

I thought I would be a visual artist when I was growing up, so I'm always up for a bit of experimentation. ”

When I write, I keep the family audience in mind. I ensure there's no vulgarity, as families are coming into the theatres, and there's no blood and gore because of the kids. There is a set of people who doesn't like my cinema, but there's a bigger group that likes the kind of movies I make. ”

Growing up Marley, we wanted anything we put our hands on to be beneficial to the environment and the community. ”

From the very beginning at Marley Coffee, we have appreciated the importance of growing our beans sustainably. ”

When you're growing up in Jamaica and you don't have much, and then you gain more and more... you can now share the more that you have with the people that have less because you know what less is like. ”