| I AM A B BIG GIRL NOW Oct 6 2004
Exclusive Lavigne tells us why she's sick of being branded 'just a kid'
CANADIAN singer Avril Lavigne turned 20 last month and reckons it's time people started treating her with some respect.
Although the singer says she is having the time of her life, she wants people to stop thinking of her as a 'girl'.
We are more used to seeing Avril in jeans, but lately she has been a bit glammed up.Get used to it, she says.
'It was like when I wore a dress for a photo shoot,' added Avril.
'Okay, so I don't wear a dress every day and that was the first dress I wore in my career, but I'm 20.
'It's like when I was pictured with Courtney Love at the World Music Awards I went over and we sat in the same booth.
'It was no big deal, but of course everyone wants it to be a big deal.' She added: 'I'm having the time of my life right now.'
She claimed it's because she enjoys being on a tour bus, which stops off at Glasgow's SECC tomorrow for a sold- out show. But it could also be because she's reportedly engaged.
Unfortunately she won't talk about her Sum 41 fiancˇ Deryck Whibley. 'I don't talk about my personal life.'
Avril is a difficult interviewee. She's monosyllabic and it's hard work to get more than a sentence out of her. The only time she gets animated is when she talks about songwriters The Matrix, led by Scot Graham Edwards.
They claimed to have written most of her debut album including the three songs that made her a star - Sk8er Boi, Complicated and I'm With You.
But Avril fiercely denies she was just some sort of puppet.
And she believes her second album, Under My Skin, should prove it.
She said: 'It was definitely not all of them, I can assure you of that. This record should prove to them that I'm a writer.
'It was a very personal record.' However,she said there was no great falling out.
'I got off tour and I had a bunch of songs that I had written on tour and went into studio and recorded them.
'I then wrote a bunch of songs with my best friend and I had a record.'
Tomorrow she'll be back in Scotland - the first time since early 2003 when she played Glasgow's Barrowland. She said: 'You guys rule.
'I can't wait to play Scotland. I want to thank everyone for supporting my music there.
'I love the crowds - they go mental and that's awesome.
'That's what we like. 'Actually, I have Scottish blood through one of my grandfathers.
'But sadly I've not seen very much of Scotland because I'm always on a tour bus.'
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