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Music is a thing that changes people's lives. It has the capacity to make young people's lives better.

Kids these days don't know as much about music as they think they do.

Every teenage artist out there is mostly talking about boys, and I think there's so much more to being a teenager than just boys.

Every generation of rock musician will understand that we wouldn't be anywhere without the support of teenagers buying the records.

Pop music should be about young people.

I don't want kids listening to my music thinking it's for their parents. I want them to feel it's theirs.

I thought people cared about music in a deep way, so I was writing to that spirit in people and in myself. It was me, thinking I knew what was up. Youth, who else can change the world?

You can rebel against everything adults say. When I want to find out what the new music is, I find out what parents hate.

The whole music world is based on the young, the very young people.

I've always had a teenage thread running through my music.