“I liked being a minor because you can't get into trouble. Now I just h...” — Avril Lavigne Quote

I liked being a minor because you can't get into trouble. Now I just have to try and behave myself.

I was eating bad stuff. Lots of sugar and carbs, junk food all the time. It makes you very irritated.

It's so easy for me to do a boy-bashing pop song, but to sit down and write honestly about something that's really close to me, something I've been through, it's a totally different thing.

You get built up and put on a pedestal and then people want to bring you down. It can be hurtful. Some people try to make me look bad or not a nice person but it's completely false.

I was signed by L.A. Reid on Arista Records when I was 16. He understood me and believed in me. Arista folded and I got put on RCA or whatever, then there were new people there, and every six months it changes and more new people come in.

I've never looked at a suburban building as being a minor building and an urban building as being a major building.

We are minor in everything but our passions.

We have characters in Western television shows who are in full health with shiny hair and shiny teeth, and they go about their lives having minor problems.

Football, I thought, would be a tough sport to make a living in. There is no minor league. You either make it to the NFL or you don't.

The same song can have drastically different feels and personalities just by changing some minor things. A different drumbeat or some vocal overdub could completely transform the song.