Quotes about "Youth & Coming of Age"

My parents gave up things for me when I was growing up. ”

I started out at youth level as a holding midfielder. ”

I began to speak well at a very advanced age - 15, 16, 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of war, my family and growing up on my own. I was more or less a street kid. ”

Every day growing up, I had this dream about the World Cup: I score the winning goal. In the final minute. With my butt! ”

I love coming up with the stories and being creative and working with creative people and coming up with visuals and creating characters. ”

A certain rough-around-the-edges improvisational looseness - a sense of something coming together before your eyes, or not quite - may be one of the things that distinguishes performance art from theater. ”

There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing for me as a youth was jazz. ”

I think that pop, and to some extent rock, are like sport and fashion industry in that they're about the exuberance of youth. That's the sort of subliminal ideology. ”

I think the people who did well, or are happy, in a youth industry, they define themselves out of the business after a decade or so. ”

The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren't particularly youth culture. ”