Teenage Ego Quotes

That's the great thing about being a teenager. You think you're a genius.

Adolescence begins when children stop asking questions-because they know all the answers.

I was given the name by my brother when I was about eleven or twelve years old. He was older than me, and around that age I was starting to get into girls, and when they would call the house for him, and when he was not there, I would try to talk to them. I was trying to be the man and trying to get them to come and see me, not worrying about him. When he found out... he started calling me Ice Cube as a joke because he said I was trying to be too cool. I just liked it and started telling everybody in the hood "my name is Ice Cube."

I've not got a girlfriend at the moment. Somebody said, 'Do you worry girls are just giving you attention because of who you are?' I was like, 'I'm 17, it's wonderful.'

When I got into high school and I was rapping, it was the attention I was loving. It was so hype.

I was 17, on TV, and kind of thought, 'I'm awesome. Why don't you treat me like an adult?' I was arrogant.

I was 19, so validation played a huge role in my taking part in Miss India.

I had one week in the fall of 1996 where I was like, 'I'm America's greatest living teenage poet.'

Teens have a sensational narcissism and genuinely believe that their experiences are unique and can't be explained to adults. But we forgive them for their mistakes and naivete.