At 16, 19, 20, you're just kinda going along with whatever's happening. You're not as proactive as you become when you're older. And particularly, something like fame that's happening so quickly - the requests are coming so quickly for you to do interviews or photo shoots, or you're getting work opportunities or whatever, it's happening so fast.
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I've never liked spending a lot of time on beauty stuff. I have two eye pencils that I use, and that's it.
I'm consumed with tech - medical, computational, impossible tech. So, I don't know exactly what I'll wind up doing, where I'll go with all this schooling, but I'm willing that it be better than my dogmatic vision of it all.
I needed a concept of God that worked for me, and I wound up giving my life to Jesus Christ. I thought I was always going to have to wear skirts over my knees, not be able to listen to music, and have no personality. Fortunately, it's so completely opposite.
I'm not saying I'm ungrateful for fame at all. I'm just saying it's a crazy emotional experience.
Pursuing fame is the ultimate in people-pleasing and the ultimate betrayal of self.
I'm going to be in another city when my kids are teenagers. I'll be like, 'Give me a call when you're done with all that.'