I don't want to be critiqued about the way that I look on the Internet.
Producing zines can offer an unexpected respite from the scrutiny on the Internet, which can be as oppressive as it is liberating.
It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye.
In this age of Twitter and Snark every misstep gets posted online in twelve seconds.
Because I came into fame so early on, I've never done that. I don't investigate through the Internet about people who I know in the same way that I think most people do because I know what that's like to be on the other end of it. I think it gave me a certain kind of discipline, or empathy.
People don't have the opportunity to be larger than life anymore - they're afraid of seeing it on the Internet.
I wake up every morning at, like, seven or eight because I think that there's a bad story about me, and I have to check. My worst fear is waking up and finding something bad about me on the Internet.
Every embarrassing moment is going to be shown on the Internet, whether the candidate likes it or not. The ones that can't deal with that are going to fail.
God only knows what else is on the web about me.
But everyone asks me who my dad is and I will never reveal it. It's too much ammunition for the internet.
The Internet hasn't had a chance to really get to where people look at it with the proper level of scrutiny. There's so much bullshit on the Internet. It doesn't get filtered out because it's such a new medium.
