Joe Elliott Quotes

When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that.

Being a teenager is chaotic because you're kind of coming into your own, but you're not an adult; you're fighting with your parents over responsibilities and freedom.

It's not that I don't respect my parents' authority or appreciate all that they did for me, but when I was 18 I was able to move out, and I was out. I feel like a different person since then; I mean, it's obviously a big turning point in life. I feel like I've established myself, and I'm a smarter and more mature for it.

I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.

I think, for many teens, a fundamental fact of the teenage experience is that you're in between this childlike state, in which you're told you're completely unqualified for just about anything in the adult world, and this adult world, where you're being told you have to be responsible, and you're just trying to figure out where you stand.

I have a fresh start, now that I've turned 18, which feels like such a symbolic age of independence and hopefully a new phase of my life.

I've been a protected child, but I moved out for further studies when I was 16, and I have travelled quite a bit by myself.

When I went to Munich, I was perhaps a little too young.

Ah! Young people, travel if you can, and if you cannot - travel all the same!

I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free.

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.

Every child is going to grow up. You can see it happen in the books: They get older and older and belong to themselves to a greater and greater extent.

I love being a teen because you don't have all the responsibilities of an adult yet.

I needed to grow up and do things all adults do. It was time to stop having everything spoon fed to me. It was about being independent.

I think when you're 14 years old, I think you're sort of looking for markers that prove you're an adult and you're independent of your parents.

Six months later I was in Paris. I was 16, and it all started to happen.

I've grown up a lot, I'm on my own, and I've learned some valuable life lessons.

The nicest thing about coming of age is that I can do whatever I like.

By the time I turned 18, I moved into a little chalet of my own and felt very grown-up.

Anybody that wants to walk out that door and leave home for a few months and rely on themselves instead of fate might have some interesting stories to tell.

'Star Wars' boils down to the transition from adolescence into adulthood.

Touring itself - and I was very young, and a lot of it I did by myself - it's lonely, but it does give you some kind of spine, I think. It does give you some kind of grit.

I have traveled the world by myself.

Everyone out there is growing up too quickly, university does give you responsibility but you're still learning and you have time to go out and have fun.

I left home when I was just 17, finished up high school, and went to work.