I was a handful growing up.

I think you go through a period as a teenager of being quite cool and unaffected by things.

Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.

When I look in the mirror I see the girl I was when I was growing up, with braces, crooked teeth, a baby face and a skinny body.

But when I was a teenager, the idea of spending the rest of my life in a factory was real depressing. So the idea that I could become a musician opened up some possibilities I didn't see otherwise.

Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.

Teenagers today are more free to be themselves and to accept themselves.

The toddler must say no in order to find out who she is. The adolescent says no to assert who she is not.

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.

As a teen, I was both anorexic and bulimic.