Taylor Louderman Quotes

You get to a new school, and you're the new guy, or you're the foreigner, or you're the guy with the funny accent. That first day at school was a whole new opportunity to create a new persona.

Going to Watford at such a young age and leaving everyone behind and being around new people was very different for me. Adapting was a challenge. I was staying in a boarding school and in a different culture that I wasn't used to. It was very hard to adapt, build confidence and change my attitude.

I think that is a universal adolescent feeling, trying to find your place. The adolescent who is perfectly adjusted to his environment, I've yet to meet.

It's not easy to come somewhere new and have to find your place. You might feel someone doesn't like you, or you might need to find new friends. It's not easy, and I don't like this kind of thing. It's not easy, so you want to protect the players who are alone.

I moved in fourth grade in the middle of the school year, and I was the new kid in school.

In high school, I was kind of a loner because I had moved to a new school.

I came down to Los Angeles without knowing anyone. I had my dog, and that was it.

I know what it's like to be the new girl.

When I moved to Chelsea, it was a big, big challenge and experience for me at the time to play with so many good players.

I was the new boy. It was like joining a new class at school where everybody knows everybody else but me.

When you go to a new country, you don't have the same facilities as you had in the one before. You adapt very quickly to the circumstances.

In a lot of ways, in high school, I was very much an outsider and never really felt like I fit into any particular clique or group, and so I found myself solo very often.

I left home at 21 to go and play for Munich and was immediately able to perform at a high standard. It was totally surreal, and I had no idea where it might lead.

I've always been quiet, for the most part, especially any time I've come into a new environment.

When I was seventeen, I left Scotland to go to Kent, a well-to-do boarding school in Connecticut, where there was a contingent of really naughty kids.

I was always kind of searching for the right social group in high school and never really felt like I belonged with any one specific clique.

It was a village where I come from, obviously a lot smaller than London, so the support was unreal and close by. To come away to a new challenge, a new level, knowing that I was going to have to step up massively - not having those people around me was a test.

I used to be very shy. I hated going to a new classroom and having to make new friends, meet new teachers, and adjust to a new environment.

High school's weird, man.

Moving to L.A. was hard. I had a career in Spain, and you have to forget your ego. I was a nobody again.

New York was very frightening and very overwhelming, and I didn't really know anybody. My sister had some friends there, and I stayed with them, then I moved in with a friend of a friend. I was very outside my comfort zone. Then again, I was pretty uncomfortable in general - but I knew it was where I was supposed to be.

The first season in a new country like England is very difficult.

I wasn't super-cool in high school.

The truth is, for many young people, the changing schools or starting a new academic year is really difficult to deal with.

The Kevin Abstract project kind of represents being socially awkward in high school, which I'm low-key kind of tired of.