Paul Westerberg Quotes

High school, you don't want to go back and do it over again.

A certain point came when I wanted to document growing-up adventures.

I love kids. I was a kid myself, once.

When I was a kid, I thought it was tough.

I loved high school, but I wouldn't want to do it again.

It doesn't make me happy to go back and talk about how great high school was.

I've never been more than 9 years old.

Every man is obsessed by the memories of his own youth.

I still forget, sometimes, that I am no longer 12 years old.

I was listening to this Adele song, where she's like, "When we were young..." I was like, "You're 27. Are you kidding me?

Baby, high school's over. High school's never over.

Growing up too fast and I do recall, Wishin' time would stop right in it's tracks.

I was always attracted to the past as a kid.

I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another.

I still connect with original emotions. 'Night Moves' was written about 1961 or 1962 when I was in high school, and it was about what my friends and I did in that period.

That experience with 'Rent' went by so fast. I was younger. I didn't even really know what opening night was. And now I'm thinking back on the times I went to Broadway as a kid and the excitement I felt... And I'm realizing that I'm actually a part of that, so I'm learning to take it in, 'cause so often I shrug it away.

We were younger. And it's basically like looking at football classics. You see things that you did, you see things that you could've done better and you think about all the good relationships that you had with the cast.

I had a lovely time growing up.

I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.

Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.

When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.

Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.

Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.

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

I remember way back when I was young, 10 years ago.