Cody Simpson Quotes

It's not that I don't respect my parents' authority or appreciate all that they did for me, but when I was 18 I was able to move out, and I was out. I feel like a different person since then; I mean, it's obviously a big turning point in life. I feel like I've established myself, and I'm a smarter and more mature for it.

When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that.

The nicest thing about coming of age is that I can do whatever I like.

Becoming an adult means leaving the world of your parents and starting to make your way toward the future that you will share with your peers.

I think I am an adult.

I needed to grow up and do things all adults do. It was time to stop having everything spoon fed to me. It was about being independent.

I'm ready to live on my own. It's a really big step, but I'm ready.

I'm one of those people who never really joined the grown-ups.

To be told that one can be dependent on one's parents until age 26 should strike a young person who wants to grow up as demeaning, not as something to celebrate.

I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.

It's all about baby steps and trying to figure out how to slowly, elegantly become an adult.

I think, for many teens, a fundamental fact of the teenage experience is that you're in between this childlike state, in which you're told you're completely unqualified for just about anything in the adult world, and this adult world, where you're being told you have to be responsible, and you're just trying to figure out where you stand.

Everybody grows up and they have to make decisions, and they try and make the best decisions that they know how to. It's taken them their whole lives to finally step out and start making their own decisions.

When you become an adult you just make that transition and you're right... it's fun and exciting to be an adult and exciting to have independence, but once you're out from under the cover of your family's protection and love, you sort of have to take a step back and come to terms with the fact that you won't really ever have that again in the same way. You'll never be a kid again.

After all, we are not children. It's time we planned our life.

I'm 18 and I like it!

For me, 'I Am Woman' is all about transition. I turned 21 in December, so I'm not completely grown up yet but I'm not a little girl anymore. Just in that in-between stage. The song is everything I have ever heard a woman say. I loved this song for me and every young lady, girl and woman to be able to feel empowered in being female.

I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.

Some people do need to grow up, but I don't think I'm there yet. I don't think I'm ready to do grown-up things and be a grown-up.

I was wanting to be a kid at 18 instead of being a young woman.

The best holiday I ever had was the first one I went on without my parents, when I was 17.

There's so much to think about when you're becoming an adult, and there's so many great poems about that apprehension and excitement.

When you get to your mid-20s, you start to feel responsibilities for the things that you do and the people around you. It's a cool age.

My philosophy is I'm raising future adults, not children.

Once I got my driver's license everybody treated me like I was an adult.