Robbie Robertson Quotes

I think, you know, when you're a teenager, sometimes your emotions are a little bit more drastic than maybe when you're in your 20s. You sort of level out a little bit.

What interests me is what children go through while growing up.

My entire youth was spent with an incredibly ill parent... I don't think you can grow up that way and not be marked by that experience.

When you're young - I probably still am at 23, though I don't feel so young anymore - you have your ups and downs.

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

Shortly after I turned 13, Child Welfare took me into care. I was sent to a residential centre where girls with behavioural problems were 'evaluated'. My time there comes back to me now only in flashes of smells, images and sounds.

I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.

I'm still grappling with all the things most people resolve by the time they're 35. Maybe that's why I make music that is relevant to young people. I'm emotionally stuck at the age of 13.

When you're physically growing up, you develop emotionally with that.

We're naturally programmed to endure a muddle of emotions as we leave childhood behind.

Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don't grow up.

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

I think you go through a period as a teenager of being quite cool and unaffected by things.

There is no child left within me, none whatsoever.

I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.

I wasn't a child at 13, were you?

A lot of people who start work at a very young age never grow up because they never got that opportunity to be a child, so they hold on to that and still do a lot of childish, silly things.

When you're a teenager, everything seems like the end of the world, and I don't think that's necessarily a silly thing. You're waking up and becoming aware that the world has problems and those problems affect you, whereas when you're young they don't seem to affect you that much even if you're aware of them.

Twilight is about getting older and relationships - not about a murder mystery. It's about love when you reach a certain age; nothing is in primary colors.

Childhood is a tricky business. Usually, something goes wrong.

I stopped going to school in the middle of fourth grade. Everyone grows up with the peer pressure, and kids being mean to each other in school. I think that's such a horrible thing, but I never really dealt with it in a high school way.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

I realise I'm still a child, though I do feel older.

Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.

In your teens, you get the physical puberty, and between 28 and 32, mental puberty. It does make you feel differently.