Damn this little Taylor Momsen girl. I want to be her and beat her up at the same time. She’s such a naughty and gorgeous little thing. I want to meet her at a party… get in a big argument and throw pricey drinks on each other… then I ash my cigarette in her perfectly processed hair… it’s all very dramatic and Hollywood Hills house party. Long story short, we, of course, become best friends by the end of the night. We sit in a corner until the early morning and chain smoke, chatting up eyeliner, ripped stockings, and how everyone else at the party are such losers… oh the fun we will have.
Here is what she had to say between puffs on Parliaments to Parade.
Are you a role model:
“I don’t read that crap that describes me as having an attitude, but I don’t know why that’s a bad thing. Attitude is in the eye of the beholder. I didn’t get into this to be a role model for 7-year-olds. I have no interest in doing that, you know? If parents don’t like some of the stuff I do then they shouldn’t let their kids watch me.”
Let’s talk about your smoking:
“I smoke, so what? Why do people give a s— what a 16-year-old girl who they’ve never met does?
It’s not like I’m sitting there going, ‘Kids, you should go buy a pack of cigarettes.’ When I walk outside with a cigarette and someone takes a picture of it and puts it on the Internet, its not my problem. I’m just living my life and I’m not gonna live my life for other people.”
On the fame game:
“I’m not Paris Hilton. I don’t really care about being a celebrity. It comes along with the territory so you can’t totally avoid it. But there’s a difference between doing the red carpet and having people invade my personal life taking pictures of me. And that’s why celebrity is so stupid. You don’t want to become something that a few million people watching your show want you to be. I want to be who I am because, if I lose that, then what am I doing this for? It’s not about fitting in. If you don’t fit in as yourself, then you don’t fit in.”
Taylor and her parents:
“They’ve never cramped my creativity. They’ve allowed me to be myself, which I think is the best thing you can do. If you try to change your child and morph them into what you wish you were like, they’re not being themselves. You have to allow them to grow and develop the way they want. They love me for who I am, which is really what’s important.”
