When I was five years old, I told my parents that I wanted to take ballet. So, ballet was the focus of my life... until puberty. Then I discovered boys and started dating a guy with a mohawk who'd come to my ballet class and freak everybody out. Shortly after that is when I quit.
When it comes to age, I just feel like puberty is, like, the most horrible time of anyone's life.
I was short until my senior year. It's just, like, your social status is so dependent on how quickly you hit puberty, basically.
Most of what I've written songs about are things that come out of the confusing emotional, spiritual and psychological period of time when you're going through puberty.
Peter Parker is probably the most relatable superhero, maybe ever, because he goes through something that basically everyone has to go through. Whether it's puberty or talking to girls or doing homework, he does it in such a human way.
What happens when children reach puberty earlier and adulthood later? The answer is: a good deal of teenage weirdness.
I was heavily into sport from 10 to 15, I was in all the teams, and it was everything to me. But I was very young for my school year and when puberty kicked in for my classmates I got left behind.
Once you get over that peak of puberty, you hit a nice stride.
I was going through puberty and was much curvier than other girls, which made me insecure. Then I saw J. Lo on the cover of 'Latina' magazine, and she embraced those curves and was proud of who she was.
Every kid goes through puberty, wondering what to do about girls and struggling with homework, and every adult has been through that.
