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No 17-year-old is just one thing, especially in this day and age. Kids are into all sorts of things.

I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.

I feel young every day.

When you're 16 or 17, I think like most people that age, the first time you experience certain things in life, whether it's heartbreak or death or love, obviously it's going to seem like a much bigger deal.

When you're young, you don't especially think of yourself as being young. You're just alive and everything's interesting and you don't think of things in terms of age because you're not conscious of it.

At 17, we all think we know what we're doing.

I'm 48 years old, not a kid anymore by any definition, but here is a universal truth that every adult at some point will realize: We are all always 17 years old, waiting for our lives to begin.

How does anybody change from the time that they're 18 till they're 25? Everything kind of changes. You see the world much differently, and you get your priorities in order a little bit more.

It's a terrifying thing to be perhaps 16 or 17 and feel like you are a failure and a has-been.

You wake up one day and suddenly realize that your youth is behind you, even though you're still young at heart.