I'm 19, and, being a public figure, I'm supposed to present myself in a certain way, but it's hard and you're never going to be able to tell people who you are through the media.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think a lot of times, when people who get a chance to meet me and be around me, they understand that I'm not the person that the media make me out to be.
Today, there's an expectation that you get to know public people. In the past, it was much more what you did and how you presented yourself.
We live in a time where the media is a very difficult thing to navigate because it's everywhere, and I tend to want to be a lot more private with my life.
Since I was 18, I've been under orders from magazines and newspapers - chiefly The New York Times and Rolling Stone - to step into the lives of musicians, actors, and artists, and somehow find out who they really are underneath the mask they present to the public. But I didn't always succeed.
I don't really live my life in the media spotlight. People don't know that much really about me or what I think.
I'm just not a private person. It's not like I do things because I want things to be public; it's just that's my way of expressing myself, and I happen to be very famous.
I can be a show-off at home. But publicly, I have always been a private person. It's not totally my bag to court the press.
I am a very public person. I have nothing to hide.
I'm young: I've lived my life in the public eye, and I've had to figure out how to do that.
I don't try to hide who I am when I appear in public places, act, or attend interviews. If I do, it makes the gap even wider. I like it best when someone says I'm the same on television, on camera, or off camera. This makes it easier for me.
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