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You become friends with someone when you're 16, but by the time you get to 20, you're a completely different person.

As you become an adult and start to make your way in life, you realize how much your friends are your family - though you get to make fun of your friends, too.

Family doesn't necessarily mean that you have to have a mother, a father, a little brother, and an older sister.

The thing about adolescence is that you are emerging from a state of obscurity. You are coming out into the world from your family. Your family can seem normal because it is your family and all you know, but in fact it is a mess.

Parents always stay older than you, but sibling sort of become adults together, and that complicates that relationship, I think.

When I was growing up in the '70s and '80s, by the time you were 16, you were kind of expected to be an adult. By the time we were 16 and able to drive, certainly by 17 or 18 and into college, you just had very little interaction with your parents.

You have to be the parent; you can't be their friend.

As an adult, you think of yourself as being someone else when you're away from your family, but when you come back to your family, you suddenly find yourself back in the exact same role that you always had in your family as a child and as a teenager.

At 16, every boyfriend I had I was going to marry.

I grew up as the only child, and we did not have a large family. So for me and my mother, our friends tend to become our family.