Bits Quote by Stephen Malkmus

I've been in bands since I was about fifteen, so there are probably quite a lot of terrible teenage songs kicking about somewhere. I'm…

— Lauren Mayberry

It's what the Pixies always said about music - they were writing songs and just trying not to be boring. That was their main…

— Jonny Greenwood

I grew up in the '90s and remember the lyrics back then were so abstract and open to interpretation. That always drove me crazy.

— Jens Lekman

Every one of those old songs like "What's My Age Again?" and "All the Small Things" is like a tattoo or a scrapbook or…

— Mark Hoppus

When you get to your teenage years, you want to find something that you identify with. It's almost a slight rebellion; you don't want…

— Rag'n'Bone Man

If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.

— Billie Joe Armstrong

I started to see this common theme with the songs that I was writing or co-writing, and it all had this really strong, independent…

— Maren Morris

When I sang that song, I felt it was almost as if some force had moved into my body. Things like that have only…

— Rita Coolidge

We were teens in the Eighties, and that's the kind of music that we all grew up on. When you're in those really formative…

— Tony Kanal

When your 18th, 19, 20 years old like we were at that time, its just like anyone else, you look at like Silverchair and…

— Butch Walker

Maybe you just get so attached to the music of your youth that you think it's better than what's coming out now.

— Judd Apatow

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

— Jay Asher