Dave Lombardo Quotes

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.

When a little more than a teenager, I was a piano-bar pianist in the land where I was born and raised, Tuscany.

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

My high school years were fun and frustrating, typical of the teen years. The most important accomplishment was meeting my wife, Ruth.

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

I played Winnie Cooper on 'The Wonder Years' from ages 12-18, and did a few other movies during some of the summers.

When I was 17, I was excited to graduate from high school!

I had a band called the Sound Of Love, and that was R&B songs about girls in my high school. I played in some other indie bands who were trying to make it big; those sucked. Then I started Makeout Videotape, and that was that.

Most of us remember adolescence as a kind of double negative: no longer allowed to be children, we are not yet capable of being adults.

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.

Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.

I went to high school in Los Angeles, and I grew up riding horses, so that was kind of my life. I always wanted to act.

'Freaks and Geeks' was my favorite show when it was on, by a wide measure. And that's the show I wanted to do. I noodled with the idea of doing a show about teenagers that told small stories, small moments of personal growth.

I spent three of the best years of my life in 10th grade.

We were really grown up for our age and it was an incredible special band.

My most string-beanish, I guess, is when I was 15 years old. From 15 to 16, I went from 155 pounds to 215. By the time I graduated from high school, I was between 235-250.

It wasn't until I was 18, when I was graduating high school, that I went and bought a guitar on a whim.

I'd never been to a prom, I had never had the whole high school experience. I think I was kind of an anomaly. I don't think they knew where to put me.

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

I was 7 years old when the '80s began and 17 years old when they ended, so it was an incredibly formative decade for me.

I'd never made a teen comedy in my life.

At some particular time, when I was 14 years old, I've done something that people didn't expect.

Even in movies like 'Superbad,' they're all lovable kids.

High school is such a shared experience in North American culture.

I think there are people who think 'high school was the peak of my life,' and there are people who think it was dreadful, and then, I think most people are somewhere in between. I do think that it's normal to experience strong emotions during that time, and I think those emotions stay with you.