Gerard Pique Quotes

When I first went to New York I was right out of high school, I was 17 years old, and I had never seen a building over two stories high.

My rookie year, I was very immature.

When you're 15, you're not really talking about the vicissitudes of fate and failed love and poetry and swordfighting - not a lot is necessarily touching on your own personal experience.

Peroxide' is a mix of everything I have experienced from the age of 15 until now with themes of break ups, first love, growing up - all the sorts of things that you experience at that age.

Real Madrid wanted me to join their academy. It was a big decision to move when I was 15. It's a key age for a youngster, and you're close to your friends and family. But I moved to Madrid, and my family stayed at home. It made me mature earlier than normal. That was a very big decision, and it changed me in a positive way.

My character in 'Mr. Holland's Opus' was kind of coming of age, learning about a world that was opening up to her.

I moved away when I was 17. It's been a mad journey, but I've met and made some incredible friends.

I was facing life for the first time. I was 12 years old, but I felt like a 20 year old. I knew then what life was.

As I made my way home, I thought Jem and I would get grown but there wasn't much else for us to learn, except possibly algebra.

I was a 'young adult' when I wrote 'The Outsiders,' although it was not a genre at the time. It's an interesting time of life to write about, when your ideals get slammed up against reality, and you must compromise.

I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China.

I was trying to learn how to deal with the freedom that I had away from home for the first time. 'Long Black Train,' the song and the album, are very special to me. It was just one of those things that I felt like God gave to me for a purpose, and I've been out here promoting that purpose.

When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There are never any endings.

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 grew up in St. Louis, and I just couldn't wait until I turned 18 because I wanted to move to New York.

I'm not the angry, rebellious child that I was. You can remain a child for a long time. I certainly did. I was a slow learner.

The whole growing-up process seems to have eluded me.

I was really young when I was working on 'Freaks and Geeks.' In a lot of ways, that was the experience that informed a lot of what I've become, and I feel like every experience I have is in some way or another an extension of something that started there.

Looking back at my high school years, I'm struck by how slowly history can move.

I started out myself rather late you see, I was 18.

Everybody knows it hurts to grow up... and we're still fighting it.

I started playing in bars when I was about 15 years old, and there are things that I saw early on that really shaped who I am.

I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties.

People forget that when you're 16, you're probably more serious than you'll ever be again. You think seriously about the big questions.

I feel like I experienced my 20s in all their glory and all their disastrousness.