Going through puberty as a young girl is so confusing. This monster invades your body, changes things and makes things grow, and no one tells you what's going on.
The press will naturally come and go as it has done with all artists, from David Bowie to Neil Young to U2.
While many applauded Oprah for opening her heart to young girls in South Africa, some criticized her for not investing in the youth of America.
I made stupid decisions as a kid, or as a young adult, but I'm trying to be now, I'm trying to take this lemon and make lemonade.
When I was young, I learned very early on that I could make my mother laugh. And that was one of the greatest sounds I ever heard.
I TiVo 'CSI,' 'CSI: Miami,' 'Grey's Anatomy,' 'Young and The Restless' - my husband hates that one - and that's pretty much it.
We would not give up our own country - Ireland - if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and the Country of the Young along with it.
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 was totally romanticizing the idea of Los Angeles when the Doors, Joni Mitchell, and Neil Young were hanging out there.
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.
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.
