I want people to be happy.

I view myself as a male artist.

Nothing really scares me anymore.

I just don't let music genres define me.

I remember starting out and covering songs.

You need to know when to surrender the album.

I don't judge people on their personal lives.

I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.

If you can't find dry shampoo, baby powder is great.

Music changes so fast, and we're in a singles market.

I'm very tomboy, and I'm inspired by hip hop artists.

It was always my dream to be part of MTV and make history.

The most important thing to me is that it's all really raw.

There's nothing mathematical to my writing. It's a feeling.

I have never spoken to Eminem. I've never even spoken to him once.

I want to be Kanye and do what he does musically. I'm very fearless.

I love what TLC did with the baggy pants. I love a lot of throwbacks.

I rolled up my sleeves and said, 'I want to make a mark on this world.'

I never wanted to take the easy way, and I was always willing to hustle.

Life is hard. It is. And it's like, I don't want anybody feeling any pain.

Donatella Versace has been a renegade. Just an incredible, artistic person.

One of my biggest inspirations was Alanis Morissette's 'Jagged Little Pill.'

We just recently saw Bruno Mars at the Hollywood Bowl, and he was incredible.

I just want to be a little more real. Maybe I'm a little bit darker than others.

I think in a lot of situations I had got songs stolen from me, or treated badly.

I turned sadness into an anthem for not letting anything or anyone slow you down.

I'm proud of my work and how far I've come, and I'm proud of the way that I did it.

My favorite artists are Kanye West, Jay Z, the Fugees, Lauryn Hill, Destiny's Child.

The world can be very small. That's why you have to be very careful, whoever you meet.

We're fighting to be ourselves in a world that's trying to make us like everyone else.

I have a lot of respect for Eminem and Rihanna. They are both very real in their music.

I had a moment where I was like, 'I'm so tired of waiting for other people to accept me.'

I will always, forever, write songs, and wherever they're meant to be is where they'll be.

I wanted to be part of pop culture, so I started songwriting, and I got signed to my first record deal.

My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.

We don't walk around wearing candy stuff all day or colorful stuff. It's like, I walk around wearing black.

It's tough hearing your voice on the radio, on a chorus, and knowing that people think it's another artist.

You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like it, then it is what it is.'

I've been in the room or watched artists walk in who don't write, and you can't figure out what they really want.

I went through that stage of the Mumford & Sons and the Alanis Morissette vibe. I was in a dark place at the time.

I never thought of myself as a songwriter. I was just an artist writing songs, and they just happened to get placed.

I was the girl that didn't go to prom or my graduation because I was too busy working with producers and making music.

I played the trumpet for nine years, and then I joined the choir after that, and then I was in musicals in high school.

I think that the music industry is such an interesting place, and there are so many situations that people don't know about.

In the beginning, I found it hard to give my songs away, but now I've realised it's exciting, and it's only making me better.

I think, especially in pop culture, we're brought up to think that a normal pop star is this pretty, well-kept-together girl.

I think what people get confused about is that they want to label me as this EDM girl, but a lot of this stuff is genre-less.

I don't really want to make this sound depressing, but I will say that I didn't really have my first kiss until really, really late.

I'd love to work with Kanye West. He's gone through a lot of stuff in the public eye, but his music is genius. He always takes risks.

For mascara, I'll just use whatever I have in my bag. I'll use anything. I feel like, from drugstores to a Saks, they are all the same to me.

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