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Parents are in denial a lot of the time - everybody knows what they did as a teenager, but somehow, when they grow up, it all disappears.

In theory, parents are supposed to empathize with one other - find common cause in the fervent desire to preserve and protect the world for the next generation, and connect on some deep, almost mystical level that those poor souls who have not experienced this kind of all-consuming love cannot possibly comprehend.

There are a lot of things that you don't realize that your parents are going through when you're a kid.

Being a teenager is chaotic because you're kind of coming into your own, but you're not an adult; you're fighting with your parents over responsibilities and freedom.

Being a teenager is as difficult as living with one. And we've all been there. Perhaps that's the reason we're so hard on them.

At some point, you realize your parents are human. They make the best decisions they can with the options available to them.

As an adult, I can't blame my parents any more.

I think every teenager feels like a Martian in something, whether it's in their family, I think, or in their school. I think every teenager, every human being has a sense that they don't belong somewhere.

I think all teenagers feel alone, and that nobody else knows what they are going through and all that sort of stuff.

Growing up in the industry, sometimes you can feel as if you're not having a normal childhood, but I feel like my parents involved me with a lot of people who made things as 'okay' as they possibly could.