Avril Lavigne Quotes

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.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

I think that getting responsibility and structure are huge parts of growing up.

You have to eventually grow up and take control of your life, which is very hard to do.

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.

I think that's good that I have to watch how I act and what I say. I think that's a part of growing up.

I have gone from being a 21-year-old with wide eyes to a 24-year-old woman. With success comes a lot of responsibility and power.

You can't talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.

I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted - stay up all night or eat ice-cream straight out of the container.

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

The key things are about power and about growing up and realizing as you grow up that there are consequences for the choices you make, especially when you get seduced by power.

You have to be an adult; there is no sitting around and feeling sorry for yourself.

There's that bubble of childhood that makes you innocently do anything. Then, when you get older, that pops, and you're aware of limitations and judgment and social pressures and things like that.

You need to learn. You need to grow up. You need to step up and know the difference between what you can do and what you can't.

I was pretty immature, and some of it came from just wanting to have fun.

I think when you grow up - and this is a simple thing that I've said numerous times - you should think and act like one.

People thought becoming an adult meant that all your acts had consequences; in fact it was just the opposite.

It is not size or age that separates children from adults. It is responsibility.

I don't need adult supervision.

Starting at about, I guess, forever, I've always looked forward to getting older. When I was 14, I couldn't wait to be 16 and get a driver's license.

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

I was always the kid at school who thought it was a good idea to set off the fire alarm. And much as I'm aware that that's a trait which also propels other things which are good, I wish I could just pause and go, 'Is this really what you want to do?'

The way I look at it, I'd rather make my own mistakes than have people make them for me.

They are focused on whether they can do something. They never think whether they should do something.

I'm 18 and I like it!