Eric Close Quotes

Between '89 and '93 I was a wild child, a real nutter.

I started promoting clubs when I was 15. 1 was doing what is considered the normal collegiate stuff when I was a lot younger. I was holding my own, but doing a lot of crazy things.

I'm not much of a club goer because every time I do go I get in trouble.

You know, at that age you want to show everyone else how wild you are. It's a combination of being bored, looking for a cheap thrill and being really stupid - a dangerous combination.

I did throw a lot of eggs into one basket, as you do in your teenage years - 'I am buying these records, I am wearing this'. I did quite a bit of that. You have to do it, wear your stupid shoes, wear your stupid hair.

I'm not an academic type in term of personality. I had my share of madness as a teenager.

Growing up, I probably raised a bit more hell than I should have.

In general - especially in my youth - I was a bit wild.

I wasn't ever a bad guy, and I was never arrested or anything like that, but I was a wild boy in many respects.

I remember all the way back to atom, when I would be doing things I shouldn't be doing. It is just how I was. It just gets me involved in the game.

I've been reckless, but I'm not a rebel without a cause.

We're kind of like the smoking section in high school. We're immature, keep to ourselves.

By the time I was a teenager, my desire to be daring and taste everything got me in trouble. Too often, I was in the company of kids my parents would call 'wild.'

I have been known to hang out and party back in the day. I had a weekend that lasted a few years.

I spent the majority of time at school trying to break the rules. I would climb to the top of buildings; I even burned a building down once - not intentionally, just because I was interested in fire. I remember going through the rule book, ticking off the ones I had broken and looking for the ones I hadn't.

Ignoring fame was my rebellion, in a funny way. I was insistent on being normal and doing normal things. It probably wasn't advisable to go to college in America and room with a complete stranger. And it probably wasn't wise to share a bathroom with eight other people in a coed dorm. Looking back, that was crazy.

I am not good at following rules, I am not good at following instructions, I am not good at driving slow.

I've always been a little out of control since I was a kid.

We'd be doing parkour on my high school roof; we'd get in trouble. But I was never a reckless kid.

My mother was very strict, and though I was reserved, I did give in to certain demands of my age, like sneaking out of the house to hit Dublin.

When I was younger, I was very wild, and I didn't really have my head screwed on properly.

Sure, I've done enough partying for 10 guys.

If you're a foolhardy, braggadocio male figure who wants to charge forward in every fight, it has its pros and its cons, that's for sure.

I used to go out and carouse. I was afraid to go to sleep because I thought I might miss something.

You don't hear about me being at parties, going out and gettin' drunk.