Cody Simpson

Jeez.

So I was fortunately sheltered from all that at that age.

My parents didn't tell me what was going on, but they had days in legal offices about it and all that stuff, and I had no idea.

I was shielded from it.

So look at that.

They didn't tell me until I was probably...

19 or 20 so they were really protecting you but then by 16 you stepped out yourself yeah yeah yeah yeah and now you had to so for a couple years there i think my mom like i just i just there was a couple years there where my mom had to put google that's on her phone because it's the only way she knew where i was really because i just wouldn't i was just rebelling in every sense of the word and i wouldn't talk to her and

not cause she ever did anything wrong.

I think it was just my, my way of going to find who I was outside of everything I'd been through and feeling like my identity and my life and my everything was, had been imposed on me, which is like a really, which is ironic because I built it for myself and, and wanted to build it for myself.

And, um, in, in that rebellion, if you will, um,

To preface it, it wasn't all bad because I was doing a lot of

musical and creative soul searching at the time I was like discovering all this music I didn't know I was actually practicing a lot of guitar like I was there it was directed in some ways it was just that it was all very angsty and I was partying a lot and I was doing drugs and I was treating people poorly and

it wasn't who I was.

It was like this layer on top of who I really was.

That was just me trying to, me trying to find myself, you know, like I just, I, I'd realized that I've, I felt trapped in what I'd built and I was just felt like I needed to

clean the slate or something you know um i felt a lot of it was a creative and musical angst i felt misunderstood musically because i felt like i was growing a lot as an artist and i was trapped in by being a teen pop star and so there was a lot of that so i was like i'm gonna do everything i can so that people don't think of me as that anymore and you know there's like a lot of that stuff and i was like if and if i have to go and party and do drugs and whatever to like

Like that was almost me going, I'm not- The surfer guy.

Yeah, you know what I mean?

Yeah.

I could have very easily-