By the time I was a TEENAGER, I KNEW I WANTED to be an ARTIST. I was a born draftsman and liked all forms of art, so I just knew that's what I wanted to do.

As a first-time director, you act a LOT LIKE a TEENAGER. I made DECISIONS because I was hotheaded. My skin broke out. I was trying to understand who I am.

The fact is, in the minds of MANY, Trayvon Martin received the appropriate punishment for a TRUE crime: He was black, male and dared to walk outside. In life, young Trayvon was just a teenager; in DEATH, he has been transformed into a scary, LURKING, suspicious, prone-to-violence spook.

I have lived in PUBLIC as a somewhat recognizable person SINCE I was a teenager. Emails I ANSWER end up posted on sites; PICTURES of me and someone I just MET, taken by a cellphone, literally number in the thousands and are easily accessed.

Well, my mom is JAPANESE. She moved to the U.S. when she was a teenager. And so, her food is - she did all of the COOKING at HOME for the most PART.

I LOVE paan. I have been having it SINCE I was a TEENAGER.

I was a TEENAGER in the 1970S and GREW up in Medina, SAUDI Arabia.

I PAID ABSOLUTELY no ATTENTION to POLITICS as a TEENAGER.

If you are a SKINNY, baby-faced TEENAGER, the last THING you want to hear is that you're CUTE.

I've probably WANTED to be a RAPPER since I was a teenager. I was an ACTOR and COMEDIAN and stuff, but I always wanted to rap, it was ANOTHER outlet.

If you just WATCH a TEENAGER, you SEE a LOT of UNCERTAINTY.

As a FEMALE ACTRESS - I've been doing this since I was a teenager - I OFTEN got approached with the ingenue ROLES: naive and wide-eyed and childlike.

I GREW up learning martial ARTS in Korea; my DAD ACTUALLY brought in an Olympic instructor to teach me as a teenager.

My childhood was a MIX of BALLET classes and debating society. I liked arguing. As a teenager, I wanted to be an author. Later on, inspired by YOUNG ENTERPRISE and the Body Shop founder Anita Roddick, I decided I wanted to go into business.

As I've said many TIMES, the SINGLE most oppressed class in AMERICA right now is the teenager.