I started playing with a group of young people when I was 13. I turned professional when I was 15 and I played dance halls, this on bass guitar.
I always told my young umpires, 'Don't get mad. Whatever you do, don't show it. But no matter how long it takes, get even.'
In England we burnt redheads at the stake, because we thought they were witches. There are still young redheads in Britain getting ripped for having red hair. 'Oy, Ginger!'
Now here I am playing a passionate young Irishman who would die for what he believes in.
I think the biggest problem in the world is that we have a generation of young people, and maybe two, who don't think it's going to get any better.
The capacity of young people to persevere, even under the most adverse conditions, never ceases to amaze me.
I think the most dangerous influence for a young writer is to be treated with cynicism or discouragement.
I think young people have a wonderful reaction to color because it's not screwed up by too many references.
The line between angry young woman and grumpy old lady is very fine.
Is it or is it not a matter of importance that a young man starts out in life with an ability to shut his jaw hard and say "I will," or "I will not," and mean it?
When you're young, the goal is to have a hit. You get a little older and the goal becomes to get to make another record.
I could never play the ingenue, the girl next door or the very successful young doctor. That would be a bore.
In families there is always the mythology. My father died when my kids were quite young still, and yet they still tell his stories. That is how a person lives on.
In my neighborhood in Springfield, Ohio, there were a lot of young kids. We all played tackle football after school, but I knew very early on that I was not an athlete.
As a young concert-going person, I was never enamoured with celebrities who would walk out to feature in certain songs and then walk off.
I desire to assist in attracting to this profession young men of character and ability, also to help those already engaged in the profession to acquire the highest moral and intellectual training.
When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will.
From an evolutionary perspective children are, literally, designed to learn. Childhood is a special period of protected immaturity. It gives the young breathing time to master the things they will need to know in order to survive as adults.
I tell all the rookies that come into our series and all the young drivers they can come ask me anything at any time, and we'll give them the straight shoot.
I should think just about every young writer - which I was at the time - would be influenced by HPL. As an American writer of weird fiction, he was at the top of the class.
