Joe Meno Quotes

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.

I'm still grappling with all the things most people resolve by the time they're 35. Maybe that's why I make music that is relevant to young people. I'm emotionally stuck at the age of 13.

The donning of the ear buds marks the beginning of teen life, when children set off on their own for the passage through adolescence.

The thing about adolescence is that you are emerging from a state of obscurity. You are coming out into the world from your family. Your family can seem normal because it is your family and all you know, but in fact it is a mess.

Young people need their own private places which mothers don't belong to, even if they want mother all around the edge of that.

A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does.

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

By the time I was a young man, I was pretty independent.

Boundaries move with time. It's like being the oldest child. Your parents don't know what to expect, but by the time the little sister comes along, it's like, 'Oh, staying out late with a boy - no big deal.'

When you're 16 and when you're 17, you're kind of walking that fine line of being an adult and legally being able to look out for yourself, while being able to look out for yourself and being treated as a child.

By the time I was, you know, 16 years old, I had done a lot of growing up.

I'm interested in youth culture - when your parents are running your life, but you think you're the big man - but I'm not trying to make a statement.

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.

Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18.

No matter what, your parents are going to worry about you. I had a tour bus, and my mother still thought I was broke. Remember: It's your life, not theirs. Just because your parents sent you to college doesn't mean they bought the rest of your life.

I was wanting to be a kid at 18 instead of being a young woman.

The best holiday I ever had was the first one I went on without my parents, when I was 17.

My childhood was bittersweet in many ways. We moved around a lot. By the time I was 10, I had travelled thousands of miles, often on my own. My parents were like my friends, so it felt like I didn't really have parents at all. But in a crazy way that was very liberating. It forced me to be independent, maybe a leader, and certainly a survivor.

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.

When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.

My mom lived with me until I started making enough money to support myself. I was asking her to leave the entire time. I'd been ready to move out since I was, like, 14.

As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

The Wood was about young people and the other one is more of a grown up movie.

I wasn't a child at 13, were you?

I never really wanted to grow up. I grew up really young. I moved out when I was 13 - that's when I started acting.