Adora Svitak Quotes

I feel like I'm 18, with the maturity level of like a 14-year-old. I'm still the same goofball; I'm still in college, as far as I'm concerned.

I'm still grappling with all the things most people resolve by the time they're 35. Maybe that's why I make music that is relevant to young people. I'm emotionally stuck at the age of 13.

I hate it when people call me a teen queen.

I don't miss my pin-up days. I'm far too old for that malarkey.

When I was growing up in the '70s and '80s, by the time you were 16, you were kind of expected to be an adult. By the time we were 16 and able to drive, certainly by 17 or 18 and into college, you just had very little interaction with your parents.

A lot of people who start work at a very young age never grow up because they never got that opportunity to be a child, so they hold on to that and still do a lot of childish, silly things.

I've been working since I was 18. People say something every time I cut my hair. They wouldn't say this to Dustin Hoffman.

When you're a dweeb, when you're really young, it stands out. But as everybody gets older and more conservative, it's not an issue any more.

The traits the word 'childish' addresses are seen so often in adults that we should abolish this age-discriminatory word when it comes to criticizing behavior associated with irresponsibility and irrational thinking.

In thirteen years, every aspect of the universe can change - ask a thirteen-year-old.

When you hit 30, people have got this perception that you're past it, and I really disagree with that.

I think people find it so easy to write off teenagers and millennials as just being like these shallow, self-centered people who don't have anything real going on and who are always just on their cell phones. But being a teenager is really hard.

By turning our culture over to the spectacle of child stars and their growing pains, we simply wind up taking their childishness seriously and ensuring that they don't grow up at all. And neither do we.

Growing up takes longer than you think.

I'm not really in a rush to grow up.

Every teenage artist out there is mostly talking about boys, and I think there's so much more to being a teenager than just boys.

I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.

Even in movies like 'Superbad,' they're all lovable kids.

Michael is a kid, sort of, like, I mean, Michael is a kid himself; he's never really grown up.

A lot of actors just don't seem grown up no matter how old they get... just juveniles with grey hair.

When you're young, influences count.

Of course I've had a problem with people taking me seriously because of my age. People are always going do that because you're less experienced; you haven't lived as much.

I don't feel like I really hit puberty until I was almost 17. I'd go to dinner with my family, and I'm 15 or 16 years old, and the waiter was still giving me the children's menu.

Coming from Flint, I was really immature on the court and off the court.

I generally don't think one's age is all that meaningful - there are 50-year-olds who still act and think like children.