To sense when a teenager needs understanding and when misunderstanding is a difficult and delicate task. The sad truth is that no matter how wise we ….

The search for a personal identity is the life task of a teenager..

Wise parents know that fighting a teenager, like fighting a riptide, is inviting doom..

I think it magnified it. For me, I wasn't sheltered so I think it was magnified. Especially when you're a teenager and you go to high school and you'….

Teen fiction should be about teenagers - no matter how many arguments there are about what YA lit should be, this seems like the one thing we can all….

I am a ordinary teenager. I fall in love like everyone else..

A high-school girl, seated next to a famous astronomer at a dinner party, struck up a conversation with him by asking: "What do you do for a living?"….

I think the seed was planted when I was a teenager, and it took me until I got out of Juilliard. At Juilliard I was just learning to be a composer, b….

Racism is taught in the home. We agree on that? Well, it's very hard to teach racism to a teenager who's listening to rap music and who idolizes, say….

Since my teen years I was interested in martial arts..

I grew up in the 70s, when people talked on the phone - and just talked more. I remember the phone was the epicenter of our house. I spent hours ever….

A baroque art-rock bubblegum broadcast on a frequency understood only by female teenagers and bred field mice..

There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn..

Having grown up in Oklahoma when it was one of the last states which prohibited liquor, I grew up with War On Drugs, where every teenager knew who th….

Teenagers have to be sustained; they have to be given something to live for and something that involves them without having to make a child, a human ….

I know you can't go back, so I try to do all the things other teenagers do..

I've recorded at home since I was a teenager, and I'm able to sit here in my underwear and keep trying different things until something works. I thin….

I've had the time to go through all the life phases with my parents, from being a bratty teenager, pushing them away, to saying later on, 'Oh my God,….

As a teenager, I didn’t want to be me; I wanted to be many different people. Maybe I realized that they all lived inside me and that if I managed to ….

People don't seem to care about convictions any more. When I was a teenager, the deal was that, y'know, you had a band that you were really loyal tow….

I was not that pretty a girl and I was never pursued as a teenager or young woman, so I was used to having no shame and trying to get people to love ….