Everyone makes mistakes. If everyone fell into the sand after making a mistake we would never get anywhere. We’d all be washed away in the sea, lost forever. Do you understand?

If there’s anything more mortifying than being famous at 14, it’s being washed up right after.

Have you ever noticed how as an adult, all the bright colors go out of your life? Now that I’m not a kid anymore, things always look gray, like a clothesline draped with laundry that’s...