Taylor Momsen Just Wants Her Music To Be “Taken Seriously”

Taylor Momsen is tired of people refusing to take her band, The Pretty Reckless, seriously.

Taylor Momsen who is only 16 years old, became famous after starring in the Blockbuster “How The Grinch Stole Christmas” in the early 2000′s. She’s apparently had a hard time getting people to get past her role in that movie and to look past the “child star” title. Now Taylor is starring on the hit T.V. show, “Gossip Girl.”

Momsen insists that she is wise beyond her years and she just want’s people to take her music and band seriously.

She tells Seventeen magazine, “I think people don’t really take me seriously because I’m 16. And they think most 16 year olds don’t know what they want to do. But I actually really do, because I’ve been thinking about it since I was two… I love working. I’m a workaholic, and no one believes it. I’m in the recording studio until three in the morning.”

“I am angsty. I’ll be angsty until I’m 80 years old. I think that keeps things fresh. But I always think angst is such a derogatory word toward teenagers. It just means you’re figuring s**t out, and I don’t know why that’s a negative thing.”