Teenage years are hard. And, having taught high school for a number of years, I think they're particularly hard on teenage girls. The most self-conscious human beings on the planet are teenage girls.

It's funny: I always, as a high school teacher and particularly as a high school yearbook teacher, because yearbook staffs are 90 percent female, I got to sit in and overhear teenage girl talk for many years. I like teenage girls; I like their drama, their foibles. And I think, 'I'll be good with a teenage daughter!'

Anyone who's been to high school with teenage girls knows how horrible girls can be.

I think your teenage years define your musical roots forever. You're always looking for a theme for your high school years.

In high school, I dressed up as every James Bond girl. I was a teenage Pussy Galore.

The teenage years are ridiculously crucial and hard and, um, awkward.