Kathy Bates Quotes

I was so deeply involved in music, I had already outgrown all the pressure of high school cliques and gossip.

I just want to play guitar and be in a band. Same as I always did.

Searching for a boy in high school is as useless as searching for meaning in a Pauly Shore movie.

Grade 9: I was too small for football, too shy for drama class, but I did have a passion for music. And so, with a mouth full of braces (and a glorious mullet), I accepted that the trombone would be a fantastic scholastic counterpart to my extracurricular loves: country music, and the guitar.

I love writing about the summer between high school and college. It's the last gasp of really being a teen.

The area of teenage life is not necessarily rarefied; we've all gone through that period. It's not as rarefied as a western or a space adventure or a gangster film, but it has its own dynamic.

I had no interest in high school besides art.

As a teenager I was obsessed with music and with writing and performing songs.

In high school, I didn't date awesome dudes.

I didn't even go to my prom. I didn't have one date in high school.

I've only been to high school on TV and in movies. I've never actually been to high school.

The acting was first. As a teenager I was an actress; and then I came back as a singer.

As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar.

When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.

My first three years of high school, I wasn't that cool.

I wish I was a teenager in the 1970s.

I did not grow up with a spatula in my hand. I didn't even cook that much in high school. I was busy being a teenager and doing everything that goes along with that.

'Rookie' is not your guide to Being a Teen. It is, quite simply, a bunch of writing and art we like and believe in.

A teenage foot that never tapped to 'Heartbreak Hotel' in the '50s probably belonged to a hopeless grind.

I had collages in my bedroom when I was a teenager.

I would say I was an all-American teenager.

We went to high school together; he was a year older than me. I remember him there . . . he was very tall and skinny, wore lots of ponytails in his head, and I'm pretty sure I bought weed from him. I had to have.

I was really into music. I started playing guitar also when I was nine. I wanted to be in the Beatles, even though John Lennon died the year I got a guitar and the Beatles broke up before I was born.

I wrote a lot of poetry in the last two years of high school, all about the same girl I was in love with. That was pretty awful. Did you know that in poetry, every line does not need to rhyme?

That's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around. But too many people got in the way.