Doesn’t matter whether it’s a teen girl who’s pregnant, hasn’t told her parents, or an elderly couple dealing with one of them being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. Those are real people to me. Those are the people I dealt with every single day.
Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
They were marketing me as a teen idol, when the stuff on the record was not what teen idols were doing at the time.
I think growing up is difficult and it’s a process that I’m always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.
Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did.
I think you go through a period as a teenager of being quite cool and unaffected by things.
I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.