Quotes about "Youth & Coming of Age"

On my tour, either they're coming to see me, or they're not. ”

Growing up, all I did was play sports. I always loved music, but I never even thought I'd be on stage one day. ”

When you're a child, and you're growing up, and you're mimicking a certain character, or you're trying to live and breathe a certain character on set for eight years that are also your formative years, you oftentimes take a lot of who you're playing into your real life and kind of become that thing. ”

I think the teenage sides of myself have informed my adult self. ”

I think we all have different ways with coming to terms with celebrity if you're raised within it. Everyone goes through it differently, and there's no one right answer. ”

Y'know, I think, inherently, when you hear something like a teenage narrative come into play, even the idea that it's being called 'teenage' is a notion that it's being reduced to a problem that's not quite adult. That's a problematic thing to say about a narrative that could actually be dangerous, could be hurtful, could be upsetting. ”

My brother and I have a profound nostalgia for our youth, and I think people need to come to terms with things leaving and being gone. ”

I think, for many teens, a fundamental fact of the teenage experience is that you're in between this childlike state, in which you're told you're completely unqualified for just about anything in the adult world, and this adult world, where you're being told you have to be responsible, and you're just trying to figure out where you stand. ”

When I was growing up, I never really knew my father. I didn't get to know my father until I was about 14 years old. ”

It's insane to have a first album, the first morning of it coming out, it's insane. ”