Shania Twain Quotes

I haven't changed a bit. I go out with my mates, but I probably have to watch what I do a little more.

I did my fair share of stupid stuff in high school, like anyone. I had a healthy fear of my parents, and I certainly never wanted to disappoint them. That would be the worst thing I could ever do.

When you go through life, when you go through different things, you take risks, you question yourself. I think everybody does, at some point in their life, question themselves.

As a teenager, I wanted to be sophisticated and avant-garde, and I was really judgmental. But when you're a teenager, you're fearless because you don't know the repercussions to anything.

I sometimes still feel I am living in a goldfish bowl, but I now manage it better. I still have a naughty streak, too, which I enjoy and is how I relate to those individuals who have got themselves into trouble.

I was a trouble teenager. I was uncontrollable, but I haven't done anything that I'm not proud of.

That is life: you have to deal with things, and it's up to you how you deal with things. That's what makes you mature or not. If you can get the best out of yourself, that's all that matters. If you do that, nobody is arguing.

I think when you're in your 20s, going from adolescence to about 24, I think your life is a series of emotional storms that you have to weather. Life is more emotional at that time, and you're less equipped to deal with what life throws at you. I always think that if you can get past 24, than life really starts at that point.

I act like a kid, and I feel like I need to grow up a little bit. A little bit. Not too much.

Teens are not like the weird, dumb dwarves you have around your house. They are actually you when you were younger.

It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it is in your work, it's harder in your life. But it can be done.

I think, you know, when you're a teenager, sometimes your emotions are a little bit more drastic than maybe when you're in your 20s. You sort of level out a little bit.

You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself.

I'm a grown man. You know, I've been in a lot of scrapes, but I never felt like I got so - there are probably a lot of things I should have done that I didn't do.

You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to see that the girl of nineteen who thought herself a genius was only an unusual girl writing her heart out.

Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.

My demons, inner strengths and physical battles have guided me through life.

Not many people do at the age of 21 or younger even, know how to act nor could be concerned with anything other than fighting, women and money.

If I saw my 15-year-old self now, I'd think I wasn't that bad, but back then I perceived myself as awful.

Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don't grow up.

At a certain point, you realize you have a responsibility more behind yourself and your need for adrenaline. I'm glad I did things in my 20s that were more reckless.

I am really looking forward as I get older and older, to being less and less nice.

I'm not the angry, rebellious child that I was. You can remain a child for a long time. I certainly did. I was a slow learner.

I think you go through a period as a teenager of being quite cool and unaffected by things.

Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension.