Being Quote by Petra Collins

I was precocious, so I began reading 'Cosmo' when I was 12.

— Joanna Coles

I vividly remember being 14. That was the age when I started to get happy: I started being a writer and stopped being a loser.

— Anthony Horowitz

At sixteen I was like: "I need to get an album out now!" - even though I was only sixteen. I was always in…

— Brooke Fraser

I had a difficult start to secondary school, missing the first month because of 'Mary Poppins.' Everyone knew who I was, who my brother…

— Carrie Hope Fletcher

As I got into my teens, I started reading better books, beginning with the Beats and then the hippie writers, people like Wallace Stegner…

— Stephen Gaghan

Take 'Jack and Diane.' I was so disgusted with people thinking the line 'Hold on to sixteen as long as you can' meant to…

— John Mellencamp

I was having my teens in my 30s.

— Julie Walters

I self-taught myself music at 19-20.

— Fawad Khan

As a kid, there [on TV] were things I wasn't aware of - insecurities while transition from teen to adult. When I was around…

— Kofi Siriboe

I was 15 years old when I came out.

— Karamo Brown

I enjoyed being a teenager.

— Lil Yachty

Teens in the '90s had the same basic desires as they do now.

— Jay Asher