Paul McCartney Quotes

I immerse myself in things that meant something to me while I was growing up.

The years between leaving school and actually becoming an adult are very important years. You make a lot of choices as to the type of life you want to lead and what type of person you want to be. There were so many people who had opinions of me, a lot of them very unflattering, that it was hard to make up my mind about who I was supposed to be.

It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to infer. But our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood. . . .

And you're figuring out who you are, and you haven't yet become stagnant in your thinking. You haven't solidified. And one thing that I find is that a lot of grown-ups tend to look back on their high school or middle school years and say, "Oh, thank God all that's over."

That's a part of me going back to what I used to do.

You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a part of what you are - that you can't ignore it. But I don't look at scrapbooks.

I'm forever in debt to Nickelodeon. It made me who I am today.

It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays.

I remember everything from 1976. I remember I was 14, and I remember my routines.

Everybody looks back on what they studied and what they grew up with.

When I look back to my childhood, many concrete scenes come to my mind, good ones and bad ones.

To him who has thought, or done, or suffered much, the level days of his childhood seem at an immeasureable distance, far off as the age of chivalry, or as the line of Sesostris.

When I think about myself at 15, I can't relate to myself at all. I thought I knew everything.

These are the pieces of my youth, the small secrets and the not-so-great expectations that defined my coming of age.

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.

All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself.

It's funny looking at yourself. You know how it is when you look back at old pictures? It's just funny looking back at yourself walking and talking at age 14.

It's always a really great feeling when I talk to people who watched 'Jett Jackson' because we were the same age. We were all kids. I was 13 when I started working on that show, and that was part of my childhood.

A lot of times, when I go back to books I loved when I was young, I don't quite understand what it was that I loved about them. Rereading 'The Secret Garden,' I felt a lot like Mary feels when she visits her garden.

It's hard to watch something you've done many years ago.

Although I sometimes enjoy writing from an adult's perspective, I feel dedicated to the coming of age story - that part of a young person's life where he must make a decision that will change his life forever. I still remember what it's like to be twelve years old.

A place makes a deep impression on you when you're young. It lives with you. It's like your childhood. It fertilises the imagination.

I was really young when I was working on 'Freaks and Geeks.' In a lot of ways, that was the experience that informed a lot of what I've become, and I feel like every experience I have is in some way or another an extension of something that started there.

You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when.

I'm in a position to look back at my life, and I realized there were a number of experiences that needed to be documented.