I’ve spent some time in Edinburgh before. I used to go up there to busk and actually went to the Fringe a few times as a teenager with my cello.
Music was my oxygen. It’s what saved me from being a really lonely and scared teenager.
The guys love us – they think we’re sexy – but the girls take us seriously… I’ve always said that when I was a teenager growing up, I wish I had girls like Salt-n-Pepa to look up to. If I’d had someone I could relate to, a lot of things would probably be different.
I remember being a teenager and saying, ‘Oh, I want to be an actress when I grow up.’ And people saying, ‘You need to be a good liar – are you a good liar?’
I started practicing yoga when I was a teenager, studying classical dance. My body and mind were very open but not very strong. I was trusting, excited, passionate, and receptive. All good qualities when balanced with the proper amount of strength and awareness.
I’ve fished since I was a teenager. It’s one of the most fantastic activities, and there’s so much to it. I just love every facet of it. I’ve never had a bad day fishing.
I was a really avid bowler when I was a teenager. I had about a 210-220 average. I had blisters on my fingers.
YA, I feel, is so accurate to what it is like be a teenager and the realities of being a teenager and being in love.
My dad’s a very sensitive man, but as the archetypal rebellious teenager, I didn’t realise that.
Siouxsie Sioux was such an inspiration when I was a teenager because I connected with these goth college students who listened to this genre of music. She showed me that femininity didn’t necessarily have to look the way that I was familiar with. It could be more exciting and much more identifiable.
I somehow sensed when I was a teenager that I wanted to do my own work. I was quite clear that I didn’t want to be an interpretative kind of artist. I had an intuition about wanting to create my own form, in one way or another, whatever that would be.
I was raised Catholic, and my grandmother taught me to stay. As a teenager, I thought if you went on a date, you should stay for a couple of years. I didn’t realize that if he wasn’t your cup of tea, you got to leave.
Your average teenager can’t relate to a girl who casts magic spells. But she does understand someone who is torn about her upbringing and the situation in her life.
I’m always full of ideas. I just haven’t stopped doing what I did as a teenager. Now I just happen to get paid for it!
I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager.
I’ve been very fortunate to keep working throughout all my awkward, weird teenager years and when I was in college.
When I was a rebellious teenager, I wanted minimum government and maximum freedom, which is really just maximum fun. Somewhere down the road, that went from being a liberal thing to being a conservative thing.
I’ve been writing songs since I was a teenager, so one kind of song I’ve written a lot is about, I don’t know, teen angst feelings – feeling unsure of yourself and immature.
Ageism works in both directions. As a teenager in the public eye, people would talk condescendingly to me. When you get older there’s this feeling that you have to start carving up your face and body. Right now I’m in the middle ground – I think women in their thirties are taken seriously.
As a teenager, I’d longed to get my driver’s license so I could get away from my parents. Then I’d longed to go to college to get away from the people I’d called my friends.
I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China.
Parents are in denial a lot of the time – everybody knows what they did as a teenager, but somehow, when they grow up, it all disappears.
When I was a teenager, I was really into hair; I dyed it different colours and had loads of haircuts. I shaved my head when I was 17 – it was pretty radical!
I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country.
I’ve been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You’re sitting in your easy chair, reading; you realize you’ve read a story or a group of poems four times, and you know, Yes, I want to go farther with this writer.
As a teenager, I struggled a lot, had several major depressive episodes, and ended up dropping out of high school and getting a GED.
The average American teenager sends or receives 75 text messages a day, though one girl in Sacramento managed to handle an average of 10,000 every 24 hours for a month.
I know what it’s like to be a teenager in Orange County. I know what it’s like to be a kid in L.A. I know what it’s like to not have any money and have your lights turned off. I know what it’s like to live in a house with five rooms.
I grew up in Oregon, where as a teenager I worked with my grandfather Axel on his i shing boat at the mouth of the Columbia River.
I was a wayward kid, a rambunctious and angry teenager, but I found acting as a fifteen-year-old.
As a teenager I was clinically depressed. Although I had lots of friends, I found those years very difficult.
When I was a teenager, my dad used to put a lot of pressure on me to be successful, and I’d really beat myself up about things like losing martial arts competitions.
When I was a teenager, I experimented a lot with hair colour, and the result was just awful.
Let me speak for myself: I think I wanted to see people who looked like me on TV. I wanted to see people who had similar experiences as I had, growing up. There was nobody on television when I was a teenager who I could relate to.
I’m a teenager, but I’m independent – I have my own apartment, I have my own life. And I think I have learned more than any of those teenagers have in school. I learned to be responsible, leaving my family and coming here alone.
I was born in D.C. on 8th Street. I know what’s up. I know what time it is. I used to hang out in Brooklyn and in the Bronx as a teenager. I know what the real world is like.
I started blogging a decade ago because I like blogging. Writing’s a kind of lonely thing to do, and I liked the idea of demystifying the process because I loved it as a kid and teenager and as somebody who wanted desperately to write.
I’ve never looked for women. When I was a teenager, perhaps.
I think you go through a period as a teenager of being quite cool and unaffected by things.
My memories of Las Vegas were all with my father when I was, like, a teenager. He was best friends with Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin, and we’d come up and see the shows and go backstage afterwards and have dinner together. It was one of my first educations about stars and how they really are back stage.
I think that no matter what you’re doing as a teenager, you’re going to be presented with peer pressure.
You discover two things when you’re a teenager. One, that your parents are not the idols that you thought they were when you were growing up, if you had nice parents. And two, that you have power over them, and you can upset them and confront them and attack them.
I’d had my daughter when I was a teenager – I took my daughter to college with me.
After ‘Arrested Development,’ I didn’t know for sure if I wanted to be an actor. I was hitting this wall, where I was the ‘ethnic best friend’ or the ‘sassy teenager.’ It felt like the same note, and I didn’t feel like I was growing.
As a teenager, my favourite rejection was, ‘She looks too healthy,’ which of course translates as, ‘She needs to lose weight.’
I’m always trying to be a good example to people and always trying to do something cool. I really don’t want to end up like that cliche celebrity teenager kid who is a bad example.
If you’ve been working since you were a teenager and working at a reasonably decent level, then you don’t expect that you’re going to be firmly in your 40s and start moving up in the world, if you like.
My mother’s records were formative for me, but when I became a teenager, I wanted to find songs that she wasn’t hip to. She was so hip, though, that I had to go outside rock n’ roll – so for about 10 years, I only listened to hip-hop, house and techno.
I personally, as a teenager, didn’t like books I felt were trying to preach to me… I did not believe in happy endings. I wanted to read books which reflected life as I thought I knew it.
When I was young as a teenager, that was the biggest mystery in the world to me: Why don’t people connect?
I didn’t quite fit in in any particular, specific way. I was a gay teenager who was into drama.
I didn’t have an incredibly active social life as a teenager. I always wished it was a little bit more exciting than it was.
Being a teenager, it’s so hard to find foundation that’s good for your skin for everyday wear.
I think my family does a good job of letting me be a regular teenager, which we all need.
Britney Spears is a big influence. Huge. I think people thought I was joking about that for a long time. But when I was a teenager, there was a genuine connection with this sweet girl who also had this very sexual side that people didn’t really want to accept.
I was quite the quiet teenager. I was a bit of a loner, a little bit of an outsider.
The first time I had my dreams crushed was when I was scammed, and somebody stole all of my magic props. I was a teenager, and I had put all my money into that. I had literally wanted to be the next David Copperfield. And that was all taken away.
