Anthony Yarde Quotes

There was a lot of temptation to do lots of bad things in my neighborhood.

Young people, for whom I should have been a role model and an uncle, duplicated my worst habits and died as a result.

When I moved to Seattle, I was hanging out with kids who had done drugs, had sex a million times. I look at them now and realize their childhood was taken away.

I am the worst influence. If you can't handle your vices, then I am the Devil.

The fact is, when you are young, if you are mingling with wrong people, you tend to be misguided. You tend to be brainwashed easily.

I certainly could've gone off track many, many times in my youth.

It's rough being a teenager in this day and age.

Running with the wrong crowd will never help you.

Still, I have been no one's enemy but my own. My easy nature, either in drinking or anything else, was always ready to submit to persuasions of profligate companions, who often led me into snares.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

Unfortunately, a lot of people are stupid. They take drugs. They get drunk and do all the wrong things in life. I just played it straight.

When you're growing up, you need to stay around people who are headed in the right direction and stay away from people who will take you in the wrong direction.

Just being young and growing up in this business is hard. Just growing up in general is hard.

My teenage life was a little strange.

I had my first girlfriend at 15. Life was difficult then.

I did not have the moments of so-called normal people during adolescence, like going out with friends, enjoying good times.

Bad influences and distractions were around every corner. But I also learned that my neighborhood could be a nurturing, positive place to grow up.

It was very difficult when I was young because there are problems with violence, gangs, guns, drugs - a criminal life. I had friends that choose a criminal life. Some of them are in prison, and some of them are dead. They chose the bad way.

The lives of the young are so tumultuous.

I just got caught up in the alcohol, women and all that sort of stuff.

I saw a lot of bad things happen by people I know and to people I know. There were a lot of different gangs around and sometimes you found yourself in conflict. I found myself attracting negative things because I was in a negative environment, I was pre-determining this stuff before it happened.

The Kevin Abstract project kind of represents being socially awkward in high school, which I'm low-key kind of tired of.

The motivations for using drugs, often it's pretty obvious and common: you know, peer pressure. You know, kids are struggling growing up.

Being a teenager is complicated.

When friends started smoking at 16 or drinking at 18, I made myself not follow. No lads' holidays, all that stuff.