Traditionally parents have wondered what their teens were doing, but now teens are much more likely to be doing things that can get them killed.
I would not encourage children or teens to multitask because we don't know where those efforts may lead.
I started to play Jazz music in my early teens. A boyfriend brought records over, so I listened to everything
I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it allowed me to act in any way that I wanted.
There was a time in my late teens and early 20s where I was motivated by this wanting to get out, to prove to the world that I had something to offer - that kind of youthful spirit, where maybe I had my eye on fame and fortune. I mellowed out in my late 20s and now that I'm in my early 30s, I'm coming to peace with it.
I always look toward teens on Instagram to really understand what's going on. For some reason, when you're a teen, you just understand the world better than anyone else.
What defines someone's music taste is their teens and early 20s. It's that combination of your sexual awakening and the music of the time, it fixes you forever.
It wasn't until I was in my teens that I started admiring writers as inspirations for my own work, and my earliest influences there were Stephen King, Marion Zimmer Bradley and Richard Adams.
If you're ever invited, fellow YA authors, go. It's the first YA con I've been to that was overwhelming populated by teens. Wonderful!
I was having my teens in my 30s.
It wasn't being an alcoholic - it was going wild. It happened when I got famous. It was like having my teens in my early thirties: blotting out your life, not having to think about anything.
I remember when I was in my late teens just getting rid of lots of records, realizing I only ever listened to them when I was reading, or watching TV, or doing something else.
You're jeans are full of crap. You're full of beans, you're in you teens. You've lost your mama's road map.
Ever since I was in my teens I had plans at one point in my life to write a novel.
Teens in the '90s had the same basic desires as they do now.
I've been wearing Wrangler jeans for more than a decade now, all the way back to when I first started playing clubs in my teens in Georgia.
We do stigmatise teens a lot and see them as scary and alien.
You can determine the kind of life you will have in your 30s and 40s by what you do in your teens.
You get into your teens, now they can't hold you back. You jump to the next number, or even a few ahead.
I was a compulsive eater in my late teens and until I wrote Diet for a Small Planet, so I know what it feels like when food becomes a threat.
What teens will realize is always a mystery to me. I'm still realizing so many things myself, very belatedly, that it seems unwise to think I have any right to be showing people things in hopes that they'll realize them.
I became conflicted in my late teens.
I built two forges when I was in my teens. I was just really, really into metalworking and making stuff.
I am for anything that makes teens visible in an honest way... in other words, anything that represents them the way they are, positively or negatively.
Hispanics still have the highest rate amongst teens with babies so at least the future housekeeping is secure.
