Rico Nasty Quotes

High school is really when I came into my own.

I was in high school, and when you get to be 14, 15, you start to feel a little more like your own person so that you can assert your adulthood a little bit.

I always knew that there was something that made me different, and by the time I was in high school, I understood what it was.

It's interesting because, even with 'Beetlejuice,' I was an awkward kid. I started at puberty and went through it on film. Lydia was one of my favorite roles because I related to her a lot.

I was a very quiet, shy child. I just became quite talkative in high school, in Grade 10 onwards.

Kids have to experiment a little or figure out where they belong.

I'm always thinking about identity. And the middle-school years are a time of exploring questions about who you are and who you want to be. For the first time, you see the world in a broader sense.

Dating and getting attention from boys was something that came later to me.

Everybody remembers what it's like to be in high school. We really never leave those years behind.

Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.

For whatever reason, I decided: 'I'm 18, I'm a man, I'm going to grow a moustache' - and it was pathetic for years - it was awful.

When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.

As a teenager, you're still discovering who you are, what your life is about, and who you want to be as a person. It's very intense.

A lot of my music is about self-discovery because I focus on my teenage years.

Coming-of-age stories in high school are exciting because everything that happens during that time is very heightened.

When I think about myself at 15, I can't relate to myself at all. I thought I knew everything.

These are the pieces of my youth, the small secrets and the not-so-great expectations that defined my coming of age.

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

All of us, at some moment, have had a vision of our existence as something unique, untransferable and very precious. This revelation almost always takes place during adolescence.

When I was younger, I was a complete tomboy. Then in college I started emerging out of the tomboy stage and dressing differently.

There's so much to becoming a woman.

I think there are parts of myself in every character I play.

Many of the things that I have written on have focused, at least a big part of the story, on adolescents. I think that in that period of life, so much happens, and it's the period of life where you're forming into an adult. In certain ways, you're already an adult and in certain ways you're still a kid.

I wanted to talk about my life. There is so much. I was 18 when I made the record, and I had a lot to say.

I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China.