It worries me that young singers think you can shortcut the training and go straight to fame and fortune, and programmes like Pop Idol have encouraged that.
My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.
I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old.
When you're young and everything dramatic is exciting, you start to believe that hype that, in order to be an artist, you have to suffer. I've graduated from that school.
Since being quite young, I've had a very strong sense of independence and survival. As a child, I was on my own two feet emotionally.
In some ways Lester Young is the most complex rhythmically of any musician. He does some things which are just phenomenal.
I started working in television quite young, actually, and I definitely felt very insecure about what I looked like.
Pretending that there are no choices to be made - reading only books, for example, which are cheery and safe and nice - is a prescription for disaster for the young.
I'm doing what I wanted to do since I was a young girl. I pinch myself every day to make sure it's true.
When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn't believe in.
You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense.
I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.
There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
I was fat, and that was awful because when you're young and sensitive, you think the world is over because you're fat.
My mother put me on birth control as soon as I told her I wanted to go on it. I was 16. I was very young.
Showtime has given new, young filmmakers - black, white, across the board - an opportunity to make films, as well as actors who want to cross over into directing.
Children who use the Internet are much better informed than when I was young. Use this to your advantage.
I have been interested in phenomena involving complexity, diversity and evolution since I was a young boy.
I am happy that the young girls have a lot more choices these days and an opportunity to feel better about themselves.
I tell people not to write too soon about their lives. Writing about yourself too young is loaded with psychological complexities.
I am the oldest young designer in New York City.
