My chops are still up, even though I'm not still in high school.

At 17, I signed a recording contract right out of high school, so I started touring and traveling the world. I sort of missed out on the college experience.

I feel that adolescence has served its purpose when a person arrives at adulthood with a strong sense of self-esteem, the ability to relate intimately, to communicate congruently, to take responsibility, and to take risks. The end of adolescence is the beginning of adulthood. What hasn't been finished then will have to be finished later.

As a teenager, I worked on Indian reservations, and it was such an incredible culture: the elders are so respected.

In junior high P.E., I was way too shy to take a shower in front of the other kids. It was a horribly awkward time - body hair, odors... So I'd go from my sweaty shirt back into my regular clothes and have to continue the day.

I was a strange kid in that, while most kids hate school and want to turn 18 or 21, I loved high school.

Many teens will see themselves in Myers' account".

As a teenager, I preferred the company of boys to girls, focusing always on the most indifferent male and flirting with him until he became my slave.

"My daughter couldn't care less about me being famous. She finds it revolting and, like a lot of teenagers, is virtually allergic to me. That started at 12 and hasn't gone anywhere yet."

"Young people need their own private places which mothers don't belong to, even if they want mother all around the edge of that."

"I want to do something where I play Judi Dench's younger sister or daughter."

"My parents have been together since they were 16 years old."

Teenagers these days are out of control. They eat like pigs, they are disrespectful of adults, they interrupt and contradict their parents, and they terrorize their teachers.