John Oates Quotes

The movies I made when I was 14 or 15, I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward years. I don't know if anybody can look at something they did when they were 14 and not wince.

When I look at pictures when I was younger, I do the quintessential cringe.

It's just crazy to look back at what I was wearing in high school.

I wore hot pants and cowboy boots and I thought, 'What have I gotten myself into?'

I grew up walking out with no music. I wish I had the bottle to dance on but I can't dance.

I have a hard time watching the shows now. It is like opening up a yearbook when you were in junior high. I think everybody looks back at their photos and cringe, and I get to experience it with everybody else in the world looking at mine.

I would hate to meet myself at 15.

I actually participated in a Little Miss Orange Blossom Contest when was I was seven or eight years old. I remember standing up on the stage and thinking, 'Oh boy, I should not be here.' Obviously, I didn't win.

All of my friends are like, 'Look at me when I was a little kid. I was so cute!' and it's a picture of them in a tutu. I'm so terrified to show them my pictures, because it's me in boy shorts and a ponytail and my brother's shirt.

I was voted 'most shy' in seventh grade! Can you even believe it?

When I was 15 I did birdcalls on the David Letterman show, but I have since burned all video evidence of this.

I had a vague memory of being that ridiculous at one time. Let he who hath never worn parachute pants cast the first stone.

In high school, I definitely fancied myself an intense guy, which is so lame.

I suffered when I was in my late twenties and early thirties. I was awkward, I stuck out, I was nerdy.

I used to have quite long hair, and I decided that I wanted to get it cut. I'd never met the person who did it, and she cut it into some kind of dreadful mullet. It looked like a triangle on my head. The other kids were merciless.

It is the answers, not the questions, that are embarrassing.

I always had long legs. When I was young, I used to think, 'Why do I look like a little pony?'

My first proper kiss was from Cara Shucksmith when I was 13 or 14 at her birthday party.

I'm vaguely embarrassed by myself sometimes.

I was a nerdy kid.

When I was growing up in the 1950s, sweaters were a huge thing.

I was a bit of a late developer, and everyone was saying, 'Whatever you do, don't shave,' and I hadn't really started shaving. I remember rubbing the soot from a kettle on to my bumfluff to make it look more like I had a beard.

When I was young, I colored in the line drawings in vintage editions of the Oz books that had been handed down through generations in my family. This was a bad thing to do.

I like the streets. I grew up in the streets.

I got my awkward years out of the way.