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I still have mixed feelings about what growing up is - this thing that happens to everyone, so I've heard.

Part of growing up is just taking what you learn from that and moving on and not taking it to heart.

Growing up is not being so dead-set on making everybody happy.

Part of growing up is realizing you learn to love so many people. It's about forming those relationships and finding what will last forever.

Whatever adults don't understand, because they didn't grow up with it, is the thing they're going to be afraid of and try to legislate out of existence. It happened with videogames, it happened with television, it happened with pinball parlours and rock and roll.

People forget what it was like to be young, the stuff I'm expressing now is for the first time.

It's just a fact of life. Everybody grows up and goes through changes, and our audience has seen it all.

American culture is not about experiencing our shame, it's about denying it. It's been that way our whole history.

Young alienation, disappointment and heartache is all a part of the first real growing up that we do.

People are fed up with seeing the same thing over and over. They want a qualitative change.