Everyone drives everywhere in the Valley, from shopping mall to home and back again. Valley Girls are known across America as a bit dim, obsessed with shopping, make-up and sex. Monica Lewinsky was one. Warren lived her youth to the soundtrack of pop on the radio - not the angry punk and rock coming out of New York or London, but the cheery sounds of whitebread pop music. I grew up wanting to be on the radio and for me, pop music is everything.
Pop means popular.
While other teenagers would go to concerts and throw their underwear onstage, Warren would throw her demo tapes. She went to college for a couple of years, but says she spent most of her time writing songs at the back of the class, and never graduated. Despite constant knocks, she never considered giving up writing. I never wavered in my commitment to this, no matter what. No matter when I had no money, when people were hanging up the phone on me and sending back my tapes.