being a celebrated child star

I was able to make a record already at the age of eleven. It became a
hit, I became a child star and - hated it. The picture on the cover was
of me, but it didn’t feel like it was my album. All I did was to sing on
it and there was only one song I had written myself.

I felt horribly guilty. The papers wanted to do interviews with me, the
kids in school wanted to be friends with me and all of it felt horrible.
Then I was offered to do another album, but I said "fuck off" and
started a punk band with people my own age.

I had orange hair and everybody hated us, which was exactly what we
wanted.

VeckoRevyn 1995-06-28