My father was my hero, and he died when I was 11. So, I really never experienced the kind of natural teenage rebellion or the anger at him. I never experienced those feelings as a young person.
I started writing because there's an absence of things I was familiar with or that I dreamed about. One of my senses of anger is related to this vacancy - a yearning I had as a teenager... and when I get ready to write, I think I'm trying to fill tha...
When I was a teenager, my dad watched my films and told me I could go to art college and study animation. He made me see that I could do this for a living.
Every teenager is both a hero and a failure. When we become adults we have to choose where in the middle we’ll be.
That first kiss, it still has a way of making us nervous as teenagers, no matter how old we get.
You want me to pin my entire operation, the entire revolution on some teenaged love story? I can't believe this.
They (teenage boys)don’t really listen to speeches or talks. They absorb incrementally, through hours and hours of observation.
[As a young teenager] read ]'s geometry from cover to cover as easily as other boys read a pirate yarn.
I wanted to reject it all because I was sick of being perfect. I was so bored with normality and dreams of poster boys and tabloid covers.
Life is too short, you know? You have to make the best of it. Do things most teenagers wouldn’t do.
The sudden surge of hormones at teenage age will continue to play an important part in the life of young people
I know hate is a strong word and everything, but its okay: we're teenagers.
If we were teenagers, I could kiss you. But I’m on a platform behind a counter wearing a name tag and we’re too old to be young.
As a teenager, I didn't want to be me; I wanted to be many different people. Maybe I realized that they all lived inside me and that if I managed to connect with them, they would become aspects of me.
When I was a teenager, I was like, 'Something is wrong with me. I don't fit in. I'm not like everybody else.' So, I always knew that I wanted to explore and move on, but it was completely unexpected, the way it happened.
Vampires and teens have a lot in common. Teens have surging hormones, vampires have surging blood lust. Teenagers think they're immortal.
I think your teenage years define your musical roots forever. You're always looking for a theme for your high school years.
I live 50 miles from London and we've got some of the highest levels of teenage and childhood poverty in the country. It's disgusting. Just because it's a rural area, it gets forgotten.
I read mostly science-fiction and fantasy when I was a teenager, and I was always drawn to stories where the characters had telepathic powers.
Why hasn't someone lassoed a few teenagers and had them sit down and write out all the supposed answers they have so we can solve the world's problems already?
Especially when you play a character for so many years, the character ends up reflecting a lot of who you are and I think I've changed a lot since then, but that represented a lot of who I was as a teenager.
