Chris Rea Quotes

You know, at that age you want to show everyone else how wild you are. It's a combination of being bored, looking for a cheap thrill and being really stupid - a dangerous combination.

I was really, really wild in my early twenties and a bit self-destructive.

If my ego was out of whack and I believed I could carry anything off, that would be a stupid risk. But so far there's been no reason not to try anything.

Of course when I was young, I was a little bit crazy.

When you're young, you're stupid. You do silly things.

I was not very well-behaved. I remember I was a discipline problem. I was a typical American male at twenty years old, and I was causing trouble whenever I could.

I started promoting clubs when I was 15. 1 was doing what is considered the normal collegiate stuff when I was a lot younger. I was holding my own, but doing a lot of crazy things.

I don't care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.

Young people think that nothing bad will ever happen to them.

I do really crazy things all the time, but I can't think of anything offhand.

A fool is a man who never tried an experiment in his life.

By the time I was a teenager, my desire to be daring and taste everything got me in trouble. Too often, I was in the company of kids my parents would call 'wild.'

When I was a kid it was like, who could be the coolest? Who could do the stupidest thing? And you knew it was a stupid thing to do, but you would do it just so you could be the coolest guy. And then you end up doing really cruel crap.

I didn't do that many crazy things.

Why do it, just because I can? That's kind of crazy.

When you're in your early 20s, you go ahead and do everything. And it's very hard to judge yourself.

I am trying to think of the last time that I just said, 'What the hell!' and did something crazy.

For many, immaturity is an ideal, not a defect.

When you're young, you're stupid.

When you are young, you do a lot of stupid things.

I was a maniac as a teenager; I'm not going to sugarcoat it. I was crazy.

I used to be pretty reckless. When I was a runner for a production company, I drove a massive 16 seater van. I was only 18. I mean I look young now, but then I looked about 12.

That's why teenagers fascinate me - they're like children with drivers' licenses. Like children in that their impulses are so direct.

I did throw a lot of eggs into one basket, as you do in your teenage years - 'I am buying these records, I am wearing this'. I did quite a bit of that. You have to do it, wear your stupid shoes, wear your stupid hair.

The age of 20 was all about stupid things. I did crazy things but never lost it. I was, you know, a little crazy. I once broke up with my boyfriend in London and went to an Indian guy's apartment who I didn't know and who told me he saw my aura and gave me a massage.