Anyone who's followed our band through the years has heard about the teenage angst.
The problem with me is, anything that's easy I will just overdo it. Especially with clothes. But I'm 14 - my mom is super-strict about that.
My mom said the term heavy petting existed a lot when she was in high school.
I find it interesting that 16-year-olds are having plastic surgery. People in their 40s used to think, 'I'm aging, I have to do something about it.' Now children are deciding they don't like the way they look.
The motivations for using drugs, often it's pretty obvious and common: you know, peer pressure. You know, kids are struggling growing up.
Oh, I had my gothy phase, but I was never a troublemaker or anything like that. I was a little bit introspective, a little bit morbid. I was small for my age, so I was bullied and that kind of stuff.
I would get in fights a lot. My voice was so heavy, kids would say you sound like a boy, so I would start beating them up.
I'm a normal teen-ager except for my size.
As a 14-year-old with anxiety, to have read about that in a book would have helped me so much.
The fact is that young people are going to have sex whether you like it or not.
the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son, and the good fortune to lose him before he reached his twentieth year.
I started stealing in ninth grade. And I don't mean a pack of gum from the convenience store here and there. I mean stealing on the regular. It got really bad. It was one hundred percent an addiction.
I've been a teenage girl, too, so I've had my own insecurities and my own struggles that I've got through.
All teens are in trouble in one form or another.
Some of my songs are positive and stuff, but some are about staring down at the ground and obsessing about stupid things, and it is teenage in a way.
Acne is a bigger problem than injuries.
Music was my oxygen. It's what saved me from being a really lonely and scared teenager.
In general, you don't want to move your kids when they're teenagers. They're not going to be happy with you.
The community in Utah was very religious. I was a typical teenage girl trying to find my sexuality. Unfortunately, girls do use their sexuality to find attention. I also understand why parents want to protect their kids.
Censoring books that deal with difficult, adolescent issues does not protect anybody. Quite the opposite. It leaves kids in the darkness and makes them vulnerable. Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance. Our children cannot afford to have the truth of the world withheld from them
It's no new narrative to say that when people get out of child stardom, they oftentimes rebel in very serious ways.
At school, when it came to being social, I had no idea how to do it.
I had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it's hard when you're a kid to be different. You're all full of things, and you don't know that it's about.
I was a troubled young kid, and I would try to break every rule.
The great thing about the story of 'Twilight', or the story of 'I Am Number Four' is that you get to deal with real issues of identity and what people are going through and the choice of who you're going to be, but it's all large.
