Mike D Quotes

It's getting harder as I get more known. Even though it's my break, I couldn't really go out and get drunk - because people expect you to be training and getting up early. But I'm not bothered about missing out on normal teenage things.

When you grow up on camera and in the public eye, you feel you have to put forth this image. I just took that to the extreme and there was a lot of pressure on me.

I feel like I've grown up on screen quite a lot.

We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.

I have made plenty of mistakes. The key to life is to learn from them. I have been a little too introspective, but I think that stemmed from insecurity or shyness. I took a long time to grow up.

I've had to grow up with everyone watching me, which has been hard.

It took me a long time to grow up.

You have to grow up, and you learn things along the way.

Being in the public eye and basically growing up in the spotlight, we are always responsible for our actions.

It's never really fun to be in the public spotlight.

Life becomes difficult when you're in this public eye, and I think that we all relate to each other and I try and really talk about it in my music.

I've been around a long time. I've seen it all before.

The things that have happened for me, to me, have helped me grow up. Especially the passing of my father. That was something that took me to another level of growing and maturing. That's whan I started to be more of a man.

For a long time - when we first started getting a much higher level of attention - I really struggled with feeling like I was letting people down. Because when you do a show, there are, like, a hundred fans waiting to see you afterwards, and sometimes you can't see them.

Going to the cinema or a meal can be difficult, with people asking for pictures or autographs.

I have to pay a huge price to express myself. You get people asking to take photos all the time; you can't ride the subway... I still ride the subway, but there's always people sneaking photos or coming up to you.

I got sick of high school really quick, and I dropped out in 10th or 11th grade. I was in such a rush to grow up that I think I missed a lot of it.

I had to grow up very quickly.

Everything I do lands in the newspapers.

There's something about being around a long time that puts stuff in perspective.

Hargrave made me mature. It made me grow up, and I needed that.

Being in the public eye puts you in a fix, and people are always wanting to know what you are up to.

Odell is going to grow up. That why's he is bringing other people in his life so he can grow up. If he wasn't trying to grow up, he wouldn't be calling Cris Carter.

We forget that when you grow up, there are a lot of people who are in the same position as you. The reason we forget is because there's not really a true voice that talks from the perspective of youth.

Back when I was an idealistic 18-year-old on my way to Chicago, I might have believed that being on the side of virtue would guarantee a good outcome. These many years later, I know better.