My parents are from Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and I feel like it's an old Southern thing where people say that, as a kid, you can be an astronaut or a ballerina or a singer, but as a grown person, you need to go and get a job.
There are so many things that I still want to do. My foundation, growing my brand . . . the list is endless. I'm honestly busier now than I was when I was swimming. It's kind of weird, but I feel like more of an adult because I have to do stuff every day. Whether it's checking emails or making phone calls or doing this and that, it's fun for me. It's the start of a new chapter. At times, it is frustrating, but I know it's not going to be easy to accomplish the goals that I want.
You don't realize how hard it is to live on your own. But there's no mom to do your laundry, and make you dinner and to do things for you, and you don't think about little things like buying paper towels and salt.
Sleeping is forbidden at the age of 22. It's all work and no play.
I'm definitely not eager to grow up, but I do like some adult stuff.
We used to say when we were 20 years old, that when you reach 30, you gotta hang up your guitar and get a real job.
When I was a kid, I just devoured TV 24 hours a day. Now that it's actually available 24 hours a day, I'm usually busy doing other stuff. But I do watch TV when I can.
I have a problem getting all my laundry done, cleaning up and doing all of the normal daily things that a grownup should do.
A lot of relationships have ended for me in my 20s, because I knew that eventually those people would wanna settle down and have kids.
I hated school, but I love work.
To grow up is to wonder about things; to be grown up is to slowly forget the things you wondered about as a child.
If anything, there's more at stake when you're older, and more responsibility and more legitimate things to worry about.
I gave up my childhood for a career.
God knows it's a sign of a really sick mind to see grown people, adults with responsibilities, wearing class rings.
In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are thus steadily expanded, while those of adults are progressively constricted. The result is unruly children and childish adults.
When are you ever settled enough to have kids?
You can't be a grown-up woman and not like chocolate.
You can go to war at 18, so you should be able to make a living at 18, especially if college isn't what you see for yourself.
A guy may wear a suit and have a high-paying job and appear very mature, but essentially, he's a 14-year-old boy.
My world was completely different to other boys my age. When I was six I was earning money, and by 10 I was paying more tax than the parents of other pupils. I feel a lot older than my years. Because I was working with adults, I had to mature a lot quicker.
I feel like today we always glorify the young, just-plucked-from-college writer. But it's much harder to start writing later, in middle age, struggling on a book around a full-time job and family.
College, by far, was the best time of my life. Just being able to go there right now and not worry about paying bills and all that and just having fun.
I was wanting to be a kid at 18 instead of being a young woman.
We spent our lives making livings.
I bought my first house at 19-years old.
