They were marketing me as a teen idol, when the stuff on the record was not what teen idols were doing at the time.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
All that stuff - 'teen idol' - that wasn't me.
I was a teen idol and that has a short shelf life.
Being a teen idol is what I've waited for my whole life.
I don't think there's a problem with being a teen idol, if that happens to me, I'll be happy to deal with it.
So in those days, they were scooping up any young person who could sing and look decent, ah, at the same time.
Since I was 17, I had been just making records and promoting them.
I didn't want to be the typical teen idol. I didn't want to be Leif Garrett. I didn't want to be Shaun Cassidy, David Cassidy or Parker Stevenson. I wanted to do my own thing.
I was the boy who liked to sing his own songs at talent shows, and I was suddenly officially uncool.
Everybody is a teenage idol.
I think anybody who's doing work in their teen years on TV or in the movies, you're a teen idol by default.