Duncan Jones Quotes

My teenage years were pretty - I have regrets about those years. Obviously everyone knows that as a teenager it's really confusing and your feelings are so raw.

Growing up, I had a bit of an identity crisis.

To most teenagers, life is a strange uncharted land filled with a mixture of new joys, intensely felt, and painful confusions for which they know no anodyne.

I think everyone feels lost at times during their high school years.

Early youth is a baffling time.

Songs like 'Learn To Love Again' and 'Rochester' and some of the more gut-wrenching ones deal with the pain of the younger times of your life... trying to make sense of some the stuff we probably all went through.

I think the most important part of the teenage years is wondering.

I've been writing songs since I was a teenager, so one kind of song I've written a lot is about, I don't know, teen angst feelings - feeling unsure of yourself and immature.

Young, dumb, lookin' in the mirror tryin' to figure out who I’m gonna be this year.

They keep coming up new all the time - things to perplex you, you know. You settle one question and there's another right after. There are so many things to be thought over and decided when you're beginning to grow up. It keeps me busy all the time thinking them over and deciding what's right. It's a serious thing to grow up, isn't it, Marilla?

Oh, bein' young ain't easy 'cos ev'rythin' you're puzzlin'n'anxin' you're puzzlin'n'anxin' it for the first time.

When you come out of your teens, you think you're sussed. But you don't know who you are at 22. You're constantly trying to fit in. You get a little lost.

Books for teens are amazing and compelling, I think, because they're generally set in a time in people's lives when they are uncertain about who they are and who they love and what the right thing is to do.

When I was 18 years old I went to Shakespeare Company, the school, and I wrote a poem about my leaves - I felt like a tree that had no leaves. That is the life at 18.

As much as I try, when I open my mouth, Lena comes out, And I get so mad.

Young alienation, disappointment and heartache is all a part of the first real growing up that we do.

I just look around and say, I'm a mess. I don't know why I do things.

Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over.

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Adolescence is a plague on the senses.

At 20 and 30, we are like travelers in a foreign country, reading the guide book to learn how to behave, to learn when the post office is open. Trivia looms important; critical issues fade into a pastel background, unrecognized.

I wouldn't want to go back to my 20s; they were pretty angst-laden times.

I still don't know quite what I'm supposed to do or be.

I am private because I'm still figuring things out. I'm young! I'm making it up as I go!

We forget when we're all grown up. 16 was a long time ago. It's hard to remember how freakin' difficult it is as 16! Life is not easy, and you're trying to figure stuff out.