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I think anybody who's doing work in their teen years on TV or in the movies, you're a teen idol by default.

Being a teen idol is what I've waited for my whole life.

Everybody is a teenage idol.

I can deal with it now, but 13 is a tough age to be recognized and famous. It's a tough age, period.

I felt like I got more comfortable on 'Idol' when I just started being myself and not trying to be what I thought I had to be.

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 grew up always wanting to be a part of 'Idol,' and I never thought I would make it as far as I did. I was really lucky, and it's given me the opportunities that I have now.

I was a teen idol and that has a short shelf life.