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At my age flowers scare me.

Flower was a good metaphor for growth. The song is obviously about sexual responsibility, so that was the main metaphor. Also, it's like knowing who someone has been and remembering and appreciating that, but really appreciating what they are now even more.

I was a late bloomer. I wasn't a child performer.

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

I've never been the wilting flower. I've never been the girl who's subservient to a man.

There was probably something as a child I wanted to express, something unsaid that I needed to share.

My parents told me I'd point to a bed of flowers and say 'Pink. Pretty,' before I knew any other words.

You know, as an only child, you're kind of in a bubble, and there are all sorts of things about my childhood that I still can't really place.