David Draiman Quotes

I'm interested in youth culture - when your parents are running your life, but you think you're the big man - but I'm not trying to make a statement.

Sixteen is a hard time. A lot of kids are experimenting with things.

In a lot of ways, I wasn't a normal teenager.

I didn't rebel as a child. I missed that angry teenager thing.

Kids should be naughty and go through that rebellious phase I didn't have.

I was a snot-nosed teenage skater at one point, who listened to only punk records and hung around people that had that idea of what is okay to do and what isn't okay to do.

I remember in seventh grade we used to wear lipstick to school, and the teachers would get so angry, and they'd steal our lipstick if we had them.

My high school years were exactly like 'Superbad.'

I really wanted to go to high school and be normal.

As a teenager especially, I just wanted to do my thing and not be noticed.

When you're young, it's all about the society of school and being cool, but they don't understand that somebody can be different and live a different lifestyle and still be a regular person. I was the same way when I was a kid.

I don't know what 15-year-old doesn't have a desire to separate themselves from their parents and prove their independence.

The young always have the same problem – how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

Every teenager feels like a freak. It's part of being a teenager, part of the individuation from child to adult - those teenage years are who am I? What am I? Where am I going?

We are all rebellious teenagers. Sometimes we grow out of it, and sometimes we don't.

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.

We lived by the water, and I was a pretty normal kid until my teenage years; then I dyed my hair pink and spiraled out of control.

I like writing about teenagers because it's a time of great change and conflict. Up to then, you accept what your parents tell you.

The donning of the ear buds marks the beginning of teen life, when children set off on their own for the passage through adolescence.

I don't want to just be in the normal kind of teen movie.

Because teenagers don't have adult responsibilities yet, you can create your own drama, and it's a universe of your own emotions.

You lie when you're a teenager, I think, because your parents are treating you like you're younger and you - in your mind - think that you're so much older. You make up all of these lies because you think it's what you should do.

I was a rebel. I went to Carmel Convent in Delhi where I was a complete rebel. I thought I was 12 going on 18. I wanted to go out with friends older to me, stay out late - my parents were horrified. It was then that we began having our first disagreements.

Just because you have teenagers in a movie doesn't make it a teen movie.

It took me until my teenage years to realize that I was medicating with music. I was pushing back against my stupid school uniform, instructors who called me by my last name and my classmates, who, while friendly enough, were not at all inspiring.