The quality of the work when I was 16... I've had my issues with it, but I've learned to forgive myself because I was 16 years old.
A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes other people sick.
When you come to L.A. as a kid with your mom, you're lured into doing things that you think are cool and fun and a good idea, but they're cheesy and awful. And recording a pop single was one of them.
It's not the most normal life in the world, but I screw up plenty of times to be a normal teenager.
These are young people who made mistakes that aren't that different than the mistakes I made and the mistakes that a lot of you guys made, we have a tendency sometimes to almost take for granted or think it's normal that so many young people end up in our criminal justice system. It's not normal. ... What is normal is teenagers doing stupid things.
I was a drug dealer in Ibiza at 15. I did not excel in drug dealing - I was terrible at it. Golden rule with drug dealing - don't get too enthusiastic with your own merchandise.
I definitely wasn't a perfect person in high school. That is the time to make mistakes, especially with significant others and also with friends.
Rather than serving in the U.S. Senate for almost 20 years or having so many other wonderful life experiences, I could have served a longer sentence in prison for some of the stupid, reckless things I did as a teenager.
