They were marketing me as a teen idol, when the stuff on the record was not what teen idols were doing at the time.
I think anybody who's doing work in their teen years on TV or in the movies, you're a teen idol by default.
I became a teen idol. At the time, it embarrassed me.
I don't think there's a problem with being a teen idol, if that happens to me, I'll be happy to deal with it.
I was a teen idol in Latin America.
I was a teen idol and that has a short shelf life.
It's hard to feel like a teen idol.
If I was ever a teen idol, I’d kill myself.
Being a teen idol is what I've waited for my whole life
Being a teen idol is what I've waited for my whole life.
Frank Sinatra is the only one that went from teen idol to superstar.
When I was a teen idol, I was so goddamn pretty I wouldn't have taken myself seriously.
I guess I never took my fame as a teen idol too seriously.
It was never something I had in my mind to do – a show on Nickelodeon, let alone being consider a teen idol. It’s odd. I remember my mom picking up a magazine with me on the cover and saying, ‘You don’t know how weird this is for me.’ I told her, ‘You don’t know how weird it is for me!’
Being a teen idol or being a heartthrob on all the magazines, with Shaun Cassidy, Leif Garrett, and Scott Baio - it was embarrassing! I never understood it. I mean, why me? I never really got it.
We all just really love teen movies and teen music and I've just always been fixated on that, so I'm just kind of immature about that kind of stuff still.