When I was a teenager I was a total romantic escapist. My world was books.
People ask me, 'Why angels? Why paranormal? Why teens?' In the beginning, I'm not sure I knew I was starting down any of those twisted paths - paths that now seem so familiar to me that they are downright comforting. In the beginning, I was just writing about love.
Once, in high school, on a field trip away from school, some girls brought razors to shave their legs and threw them at me and told me to kill myself. But they were all insecure. They were angry, snapping at everybody.
The day before my 16th birthday I got my guitar.
Nothing could be as hard as middle school.
I dated a teacher in high school. Yeah, it didn't make me cooler. And a lot of you are like 'that's cause you were homeschooled'.
I had this talent for these stupid little teenage songs. I just couldn't get anyone to sing my songs, so I had to sing my own tunes.
Teen pop will never die as long as there are teens and popular music. It just takes a different head.
I built two forges when I was in my teens. I was just really, really into metalworking and making stuff.
In about seventh grade, that's when we started playing around with beats, rhymes.
I was debauched in my 20s, but I was fit and healthy in my teens.
Raising teens is a challenge - that's for sure.
I would not encourage children or teens to multitask because we don't know where those efforts may lead.
