I wasn't a kid when I came out. Soulja Boy was 16. I'm saying that when he came out he was a kid so it was naturally a show for him. It's not about the music right away. It's a show for him. Not that he's not putting enough effort into his music, but how much effort can a 16 year old put into his music because as you mature and get older even the songs he's doing now has evolved and he's looking back.
Being an actress doesn't make you popular in school.
If I could sell 500 million records every time, it would be great. But I've also had the luxury experience of having it when I was a teenager, in a very kind of model version of it.
All that stuff - 'teen idol' - that wasn't me.
When I was 14, I was on the cover of 'Bop' and 'Tiger Beat.' Every two months, I would see a new kid's face, and I remember saying, 'This is not something that lasts very long.'
Being a teen idol or being a heartthrob on all the magazines, with Shaun Cassidy, Leif Garrett, and Scott Baio - it was embarrassing! I never understood it. I mean, why me? I never really got it.
I was a teen idol and that has a short shelf life.
When I was a teen idol, I was so goddamn pretty I wouldn't have taken myself seriously.
When I was 17 I sent a picture up to an agency, and within a week I was in The Sun five days in a row.
When I was 15 I became a full-time singer in a band. At 18 I made my first record.
I was a teenage idol, but not the one that the girls would put up on their walls, like Fabian and Frankie Avalon. I was more cerebral, like a Roy Orbison or a Buddy Holly. I was one of the few who could write songs.
I don't want to just be a teenage star. I want to be known by parents, and I want them to go, 'Oh I love that song; he's really good for his age. My daughter loves him, but I love him, too.'
Most young American actors feel like teenagers.
You cannot make a teenage idol.
If there's anything more mortifying than being famous at 14, it's being washed up right after.
