Michelle Williams Quotes

I'm interested in youth culture - when your parents are running your life, but you think you're the big man - but I'm not trying to make a statement.

No matter how good you are, at some point your kids are gonna have to create their own independence and think that Mom and Dad aren't cool, just to establish themselves. That's what adolescence is about. They're gonna go through that no matter what.

I think when you're 14 years old, I think you're sort of looking for markers that prove you're an adult and you're independent of your parents.

But, on another level it's really sort of this really cool coming of age story, it reminds me of like The Breakfast Club or something like that, if I can be so bold to associate with The Breakfast Club.

As a teenager, I ached to grow up even more than I dreaded to. I craved escape from my parents' impositions on what I believed.

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

I like writing about teenagers because it's a time of great change and conflict. Up to then, you accept what your parents tell you.

Fifteen is such a weird age to be. Nobody treats you like an adult, but you desperately want to be one. You still have these childlike aspects, but you're just kind of coming into the world.

Being a teenager is chaotic because you're kind of coming into your own, but you're not an adult; you're fighting with your parents over responsibilities and freedom.

I was in high school, and when you get to be 14, 15, you start to feel a little more like your own person so that you can assert your adulthood a little bit.

I didn't put out this album because I wanted everybody to know I was grown up. I'm 21 and that's not grown up.

As a teenager especially, I just wanted to do my thing and not be noticed.

Peter Parker's storyline hits every key point of growing up.

Every teenager feels like a freak. It's part of being a teenager, part of the individuation from child to adult - those teenage years are who am I? What am I? Where am I going?

When you're growing up you need your parents, but you don't want to be associated with them because you're trying to have your own life.

As the children get older and know what they want ... We all grew up at one point.

Sixteen is a hard time. A lot of kids are experimenting with things.

I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free.

A flapper is just a little girl trying to grow up - in the process of growing up.

The donning of the ear buds marks the beginning of teen life, when children set off on their own for the passage through adolescence.

The thing about adolescence is that you are emerging from a state of obscurity. You are coming out into the world from your family. Your family can seem normal because it is your family and all you know, but in fact it is a mess.

I realize that when I moved out of my father's house I shocked and frightened him because I needed a room of my own, a space of my own to reinvent myself.

I was 11 years old when I saw the first season of 'The Real World.' Initially, I was drawn to the show because it was what I imagined the adult version of my life should be.

Kids don't shuffle along in unison on the road to maturity. They slouch toward adulthood at an uneven, highly individual pace.

I have always been drawn to coming-of-age stories and books and movies featuring compelling young characters.