We used to say when we were 20 years old, that when you reach 30, you gotta hang up your guitar and get a real job.
When I was young, they said in the future that you'd just take a pill and never have to eat. That will never happen.
People have different expectations when you're younger - it's less about changing yourself into a character; they want a more natural thing. And they just want you to be able to turn up every day and carry on working. They have a horrible fear of 10- or 11-year-olds, that they're going to say 'I don't want to play today.'
I'll let you in on something big: I'm not a white-teeth teen.
When you start making music, you start making music at a young age, and for me, I just thought, like, 'Ahh, once you make it, all your problems will be solved, and everything will be fine.'
You can't be afraid to not have everything figured out. There's too much pressure on young people today to have it all figured out when they're in college.
When I was younger, there was a huge gap between what I wanted to do and what I could do as an idol.
But no, had I been successful in my 20s I would have been just fine. But it is nice to defy the odds.
We have so much poverty in our country. Not every parent can afford to buy their kids all the frills and perks, but teenagers still demand it, and are we responsible for it!
We inculcate young people with the message that if they don't succeed, it is merely of their own doing. They should have worked harder, we say. They should have made better decisions. This message is especially present in communities of color.
Nothing is more cruel to the young than to tell them that the world is made for youth.
There's so much judgment geared toward young girls. People just expect so much from girls. Even physically and aesthetically, people expect us to always look right, to have a certain etiquette - to talk a certain way and act a certain way - and to know certain things. It's all different expectations, but there are always expectations.
At 14, you think you compete, you retire and you get a job. I didn't think gymnastics was a career that was going to change my life.
I do not expect old heads on young shoulders.
So many times, these kids know more about the technology than their parents. And so many times, we're putting kids in very adult situations and expecting them to behave like they're 40 years old. Well, that's just not going to happen.
I use my interaction with both my kids to know how the youth today relates to technology, their expectations in terms of mobility and social solutions by customer services-oriented businesses like banking.
My own fantasies of what life would be like at 24 tended to the more spectacular.
When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue.
If anything, I was the opposite of most college students who think they can do anything.
It is unjust and absurd of those advancing in years, to expect of the young that confidence should come all and only on their side: the human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.
As a youngster, I was considered exceptional, and in many ways that was to my detriment.
When you're young and good-looking, you've got to behave. But when you're old, you can get away with murder.
Dear young people, the Church expects great things of you and your generosity. Don’t be afraid to aim high.
It felt when I was growing up that sport was, like, the only thing you should do... if you do music, you're really different and a bit weird.
Youngsters are the most discerning audience. They want entertainment, they want issues.
