While 'Twilight''s POPULARITY was undeniable AMONG both the teenagers they were aimed at and MIDDLE-AGED women who flocked to the series in droves, Meyer has drawn her SHARE of criticism for her writing. Some feminist critics assailed what they SAW as Bella's mooning over her vampire lover.

I'm INCREDIBLY INSPIRED by the GOOFY edginess of teenagers and YOUNG PEOPLE.

I LOVE it at our SHOWS when there's the big, tough, punk GUYS standing next to the weird teenagers and the GAY guys. It's so weird, and it's so AWESOME.

I THINK that when you are a teenager, it's the SMARTEST you will EVER be in your life. Teenagers are so resilient and strong, it's just AMAZING.

I would be lying if I SAID if I didn't MISS out on what normal teenagers do, of COURSE. But I don't NEED pity for that.

If you say, 'I'm going to CUT this song because I know the teenagers are going to love it,' WELL, then you're going to alienate EVERYBODY else. When I cut my RECORD, I'm just going to cut the things that I like, and whoever likes it, likes it. That's too MUCH work to try to figure out the demographic. That's too much like a business.

When I THINK of 'Nightmare on Elm Street,' there was a WARMTH to those teenagers that I related to. They were not AWARE that they were in the MIDDLE of a horror film, and I really loved those CHARACTERS and I empathized with them.

I've PLAYED all kinds of TV ROLES, from cowboys to FATHERS of teenagers. It's helped me a lot. Of COURSE, I was very lucky to have had good directors.

A LOT of teenagers have PARENTS that are MAYBE a LITTLE too REAL with them.

In general, you don't want to move your KIDS when they're teenagers. They're not GOING to be happy with you.

I don't really have time or interest in doing a LOT of the crazy things that some of my TEENAGE peers do, mostly because I have such a hectic life that I don't need to add to that chaos by CREATING my own teenage DRAMA LIKE a lot of teenagers do.

Well, I'll TELL you, I don't know how AWARE teenagers are of me. I think it really DEPENDS on the TEENAGER and how well-versed in music they are and what kind of music they like.

Gay teenagers are four times as likely to attempt suicide as straight ONES. I wish they KNEW that there's nothing WRONG with them; that they are just a different SHADE of NORMAL.