“You could be a Green Beret and a kid could jump out from behind a building and hit you with a rock. No matter how tough you become in the military, there's a way to die: there's nothing safe about it.” WayMatterKidsDiesBehindsRocksMilitaryBuildingSafeToughGreenGreen Beret Author:Ice T
“There was a time in America not long ago when rock 'n' roll was called race music, and white kids who wanted to go see Chuck Berry were completely forbidden.” LongKidsWantedAmericaWhiteRaceRocksRock N RollLong AgoForbiddenChuckBerries Author:David Bowie
“With the first kid, you micromanage it, making sure there's no hair out of place when it goes off to school. But by the third kid, it's more like, "Oh, you want to wear a splatter-painted, Hard Rock Café T-shirt for seven days in a row and not brush your hair? Go for it. Be who you want to be."” WantFirstsHardKidsSchoolRocksHairThirdsSevenShirtsBrushesT ShirtSeven DaysHard Rock Author:Annie E. Clark
“I remember working with Jackie Chan on Shanghai Noon [2000], and when we were working on the script, I thought that my character thought about being an outlaw the way a kid today would think about being a rock star, as a way to impress girls. So it was just kind of a funny idea, but once we had that idea, it changed the character and made it something that was funnier to me to play.” ThinkingWayKindMadeIdeasPlayCharacterKidsTodayRememberGirlStarsRocksChangedScriptsMade ItImpressRock StarNoonOutlawJackieShanghaiImpress A Girl Author:Owen Wilson
“My priorities now a a musician are so different now than they were as a kid. Everyone wants to be a rock star, and I wanted that too; I wanted to be on magazines and be running around the world and having all the fun.” WorldWantDifferentRunningKidsWantedFunStarsRocksMusicianPrioritiesMagazinesAround The WorldRock Star Author:Blake Judd
“I was born in 1972, which means that in "rock" terms I have no business addressing "the kids" unless it's to shoo them out of my garden.” MeanKidsTermBornRocksGarden Author:Dan Bejar
“I liked seventeen-year-old me, I was happy when I was seventeen. I was this troubled goth kid that wore eyeliner and make-up to school and listened to punk-rock music and I loved my friends and I started to make music - I like seventeen-year-old me.” YearsKidsSchoolRocksMy FriendsPunkRock MusicPunk RockSeventeenGothEyelinerSeventeen Years Old Author:Mark Hoppus
“It was always important to me to be that kid who could rock the party as well as rock the English professor's mind.” MindWellsImportantKidsPartyRocksProfessors Author:Saul Williams