Roland Orzabal Quotes

When I was nine, we moved to Stanford University in San Francisco so that my father could do a Ph.D. I went to Terman Junior High in Palo Alto. It was terrible, because my hormones were all over the place, and I became an ugly adolescent full of rage and loathing.

When you're a kid, regardless of the age you grew up, everything is high opera. With hormones raging, you have to fight external and internal battles that you've never had to deal with before. Unlike Tony Stark and Steve Rogers, who have seen it all and been through it all, everything heightens the drama.

That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain.

I was between A man and a boy, A hobble-de-hoy, A fat, little, punchy concern of sixteen.

I was a happy kid up until I hit the teen years.

Well, the years from 10 to 20, when your body, mind and everything is like changing every five minutes, can be pretty torturing. And most of the interesting characters, I think, are somewhat tortured or torturous. I'm 20 now, so I'm only just an adult.

Being young is so hard. You're surrounded by judgment and fear.

Even if you don't want to admit it, I think when you're in 10th grade, you're never more sensitive in your life. You're just so vulnerable and so angry, or at least I was.

Anyone who's followed our band through the years has heard about the teenage angst.

When it comes to age, I just feel like puberty is, like, the most horrible time of anyone's life.

It seems that one moment I was this little kid only caring about animals and flowers and stuff, and then the next minute I was this raging stew of hormones. I don't know if you've ever been a raging stew of anything, but I wouldn't particularly recommend it.

I was very lost as a teenager. Which is a horrible way to feel.

Although I'm a retired teenager, I remember what it was like to be one. I could have sworn I was riding an emotional roller coaster most of the time. Looking back, I'm actually amazed that I survived. Barely.

We're naturally programmed to endure a muddle of emotions as we leave childhood behind.

I find the subject of childhood fascinating. I explored this subject in Speak to me of love and I am curious about portraying the often painful transition into the adult world.

As a 12-year-old, I think everything seems scary.

Everyone seems to relate to the awkwardness of being a teenager, or even a 30-year-old.

Going through puberty as a young girl is so confusing. This monster invades your body, changes things and makes things grow, and no one tells you what's going on.

I became conflicted in my late teens.

When I left school I was full of angst, like any teenager, and I channeled it all into comedy.

At his heart, Shakespeare was a YA author. So many of his plays are set with high school-aged characters. He understood the passion, the confusion and drama that marks that life stage.

Everybody knows it hurts to grow up... and we're still fighting it.

I've been a teenager. I even feel like I've been a 16-year-old girl. So I have a lot of voices inside my head!

In middle school, we are all so damn insecure. It was the worst time for me, really destructive, like slapping myself across the face but loving it. Now I have to be an adult and change myself. I have to be a bigger person.

The powerlessness of the child is often forgotten. And after it comes the terrifying phase of moving into adulthood.