Nicolas Ghesquiere Quotes

In junior high, I really wanted to be popular. Suddenly there were parties with boys, and I wanted to be part of that. There was a group of girls, and I wanted to be friends with them.

People just don't realize how much peer pressure, the desire for peer acclamation, influences them.

In secondary school, I became aware of the idea of being cool, and that was a bit of a shell shock.

Don't give in to all the cliques and popularity. It means nothing. I know super popular guys, and guess what? They're just normal people, too.

In every high school, there is a clique.

I was like most teenagers. I wanted to look more conventional - you know, to just be the pretty girl in school.

See, at a certain point it becomes cool to be boy crazy. That happens in sixth grade, and it gives you so much social status, particularly in an all-girls school, if you can go up and talk to boys.

Like any other kid, I was trying so hard to fit in that school made no sense to me. I wasn't attending class; I was trying to hang out in the caf with the cool kids. I was always trying to be cool.

I was one of those guys who was, I guess, socially popular in school.

High school popularity is so fickle.

I've not got a girlfriend at the moment. Somebody said, 'Do you worry girls are just giving you attention because of who you are?' I was like, 'I'm 17, it's wonderful.'

I think I was a pretty normal student; I just followed most of my friends.

I started writing stories in sixth grade. But writing wasn't cool, like being good at sports, or being part of the in crowd, or winning fights on the playground.

I think a lot of young kids at school are very conscious of trying to keep credibility in case they kind of stand out in a crowd and get bullied by trying to stay cool and stuff. And my whole thing, all the way through school, was I was just a goof... I didn't care.

I'd rather be shot than be seen falling out of some trendy club.

I was very average in the social label scale going through school. I was neither the coolest person in school, nor did I suffer the slings and arrows of being made fun of to such a degree that I couldn't get through the day.

In my teens, I was never part of the cool crowd.

The most successful stuff is sold to you as indispensable social information. The message in the music is, 'We are terribly, terribly slick and suave, and if you listen to us, you can probably get a leg up in society, too.'

All this fashion stuff - who's cool now - is just a bigger version of the cool kids versus the nerds.

He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.

'True School' is one great big reminder. It's a reminder to everybody in that middle school bracket that was in school when playing hard to get was out.

I wasn't the most popular girl in school by any means.

What teenagers want most of all are social rewards, especially the respect of their peers.

I don't know why this concept of what is hip became so important to me.

In high school, I threw a party to get a guy's attention. I wanted him to think I was cool, so I let him and his friends DJ and basically take over the house.