I don't want to tell a 15 or 14 year old what they should be doing. I want them to tell me. And that's what I got when I met Justin Bieber for the first time.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Being 15, I feel like people want me to go down the Justin Bieber, Cody Simpson sort of genre.
You can't tell an 18-year-old to keep it down and turn off Britney Spears or whatever it is that they listen to.
At 13 years old, I was doing grown-man things, so I know who I am, and I'm telling people who I am.
There might be a proper age to know how to tell a story, but there's no proper age to start telling them.
Teenagers are a great audience and they are fearless about asking what they want to know.
I don't want kids listening to my music thinking it's for their parents. I want them to feel it's theirs.
I don't have anything new to say about teenagers.
Everyone wants something that'll appeal to, like, 13-year-olds to 18-year-olds. Especially working in television and trying to pitch shows, they're like, 'We definitely want something that a 14-year-old will be, like, super-psyched about.' And I'm like, 'I don't know if my reality is appealing to a 14-year-old.'
Anybody you make a movie with when you're 12 and they're 14, you're going to know them your whole life.
We teach teens what we think they ought to know, and we never tell them what they want to know.