Craig David Quotes

School is a foretaste of life.

Dating and getting attention from boys was something that came later to me.

The most formative time of our lives are the years between birth and age 21, when we explore who we are and learn from those who surround us.

The first half of life is spent mainly in finding out who we are through seeing ourselves in our interaction with others.

The arts can be used to socialize young people.

My high school experience - and I think a lot of people feel this way - was complicated and intense, and I learned a lot about female relationships during that time.

I went to a really diverse and wonderful school in inner-city Pittsburgh, where all the various groups and types of people got along pretty great, and a lot of interesting stuff was going on all the time - and I still hated high school. It's just a rough, rough period in one's life.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

High school isn't necessarily the best time of your life.

I was obsessed with girls when I was 13 years old; I wasn't really into books.

What interests me is what children go through while growing up.

Ellis's understanding of himself and the world around him certainly develops because of his adventures, and part of that development comes through recognizing other people for what they are.

Different people bring out different aspects of ones personality.

One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas - and you have to work through it all.

Young children seem to be learning who to share this toy with and figure out how it works, while adolescents seem to be exploring some very deep and profound questions: 'How should this society work? How should relationships among people work?' The exploration is: 'Who am I, what am I doing?'

I really had a rough time in middle school. Middle school to me was the way most people explain high school. Then in high school I had a blast. I basically did everything that you would do in high school or in college, so it really wasn't a difficult thing to pull out.

I loved high school. I had the best high school experience of all time. I know that's not a common feeling, but it's the best. You're like, you know, 14 and expressing yourself on a daily basis creatively? That's pretty incredible.

I suppose I've always lived in my own head. I didn't discover boys till sixth form. Then suddenly it was, 'Oh! Boys!'

Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses.

I'm just learning who I am and how relationships work and how to make them function. No different from anyone else.

I tend to deal with characters who are sort of at that same point of wrestling with, 'Who am I going to be as an adult? What do I believe? How am I defining myself in the context of my culture and my peer groups, my family?'

Peers often matter more than parents.

If I had to do a lot of promotion as a kid, it would have been very intense. I'm really glad I got to go through high school, have a college experience, and have the last five years since then, just... being a person.

Adolescence is a time in which you experience everything more intensely.

I think you do a lot of your growing as a human being between the ages of 13 and 18.