I don't want to ever write a book that seems like it's pandering to younger people or talking down to people who I know are very smart.

Teenagers are extremely smart, and if they think for even a second that an author is 'writing down' to them, or mimicking their voice poorly, or condescending to them in any way, they will throw the book across the room.

Children are not children. They are just younger people.

The thing is: I was quite slow when I was younger. I might have been smart - I don't know - but I was slow talking to people. And as you can see, I don't talk very loud.

Younger people are discovering my work, even though my reggae is not like theirs.

It's my experience that the fluidity of sexuality with younger people is more accepted.