Imelda May Quotes

I was a goth girl in high school. Perhaps the powdered white face and the black lipstick were not the most attractive. I felt fabulous at the time but looking back, uh, probably not the best idea.

I went through my awkward teenage years. I don't want to go back.

For me, Gothic is something from my youth, when I had a heavy metal phase.

In high school, I definitely fancied myself an intense guy, which is so lame.

Have you ever confused a dream with life? Or stolen something when you have the cash? Have you ever been blue? Or thought your train moving while sitting still? Maybe I was just crazy. Maybe it was the 60's. Or maybe I was just a girl... interrupted.

You can only maintain an immensely gothic attitude for so long before either killing yourself or beginning to feel like a poser.

I have a fondness for writing about precocious, troubled teenagers, who are alienating, but kind of endearing. It's from remembering so clearly that time in my own life. I experienced myself as more dramatically troubled than I was, but I just remember how it felt.

Everything you listen to when you are 17 should be embarrassing, otherwise you are way too cool.

Insecurity is a natural part of human nature, and there are times we feel our stories are not worth telling, so we turn to the people we admire for strength. If we dress like someone everyone thinks is cool, perhaps we'll be seen as cool.

I used to look so immature, like a young man without self-confidence. There was one particular light blue, shiny cape outfit I wore that still makes me cringe.

I was trying to be this person who is cool, eternally rocking.

I would hate to meet myself at 15.

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

Cartoonist was the weirdest name I finally let myself have. I would never say it. When I heard it I silently thought, what an awful word.

I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.

There have been times I almost got a persecution complex. I felt like people wouldn't let me grow up. They always saw me as a smiling kid or goofy teenager, no matter how much I'd changed.

When I was younger, the pressure was just being cool. I never thought of myself as a cool guy. I always thought of myself as more of the goofy guy.

On some level, I think everyone felt like a dork in high school.

I must have been a very strange child. I was very pretentious. Like Adrian Mole.

I really wasn't heavy in high school. But no one feels right in their own skin, particularly in high school.

Part of being young is you think gaining 6 lbs. is the end of the world.

I was voted funniest person in my middle-school yearbook. So I guess I was funny in middle school?

I guess I could say I'm an actor, which I am, but that sounds like I'm putting down being a movie star, which, let's face it, is what I've become to many people. For myself, I'm a guy who was very insecure from about age 14 until the day I hit my 30th birthday.

If you asked me to go back to being 14 or 15, I couldn't - it was a terrifying time. I was so awkward in my own skin. I used to hide behind my hair because I was so ridiculously self-conscious.

I'm never really going to be the normal teenager.