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You cant censor peoples dreams.
History is filled with fictional people.
The orchid is Mother Nature's masterpiece.
When I'm in the studio, I become a total nerd.
Even if I'm sad, dancing is a way to let stuff out.
The marketing is just as important as the music, almost.
The funny thing about gold is how quickly it can tarnish.
I just want to have a normal life, like everyone else, you know?
It's called A Secret Gig because where and how it's taking place won't be revealed.
Sure the Internet is the future, but what we do on the Internet is still very primal.
You apply the skills you use to produce your own book to make an anthology. Shaping. Rhythm.
Having access to mobile phones and being able to document your own life brings people together.
And I realized that there's a big difference between deciding to leave and knowing where to go.
I'd always been a club kid, so I was totally unaware that people had their own record companies.
I try to be genuine. I try to be real. It's such a subjective thing, but I try to convey an emotion.
I was speechless. Rare for me, but if anyone was capable of shocking me to silence, it was my mother.
I didn't mind being in school. But I was usually uninspired and always late. I did what I had to, but not more.
Between 2014 and 2016, I was just, like, extremely sad. Like, really, really just not able to be in the spotlight.
When we awaken to the beauty of nature, the doors to our true self are opened up wide, for divine healing on all levels.
Activists are cultural artists. They envision a world that does not yet exist, and then take action to create that world.'
'Honey' was the first song I wrote where I was really enjoying myself again after questioning the idea of being an artist.
I don't know much about making films or TV programs, but what's cool about being in the studio is that you have more time.
I seriously feel like Bowie was an astronaut who went into space and experienced things and brought back these... treasures.
People say, "I can't take you seriously because you're so young." But I think when you're young, what you feel is more pure.
Being onstage and communicating with an audience was part of my life since I was very little, but I was never pushed into singing.
I always felt like I could combine good pop songs that are easy for people to like with a real person and a real mind and integrity.
The way I figured it, keeping quiet was safe. Words could betray you if you choose the wrong ones, or mean less if you used too many.
People think plus-size models don’t exercise – we do! But it’s about health, not forcing my body to be something it’s not meant to be.
I think that girls are always expected to have opinions about each other, and maybe I don't have an opinion about some things, you know?
If everything really does get better, the way everyone claims, then happiness should be graphable. But that's crap, because better isn't quantifiable.
Commercial music is music that a lot of people connect to at the same time, but that doesn't mean it has to be something shallow or without personality.
[In making music] it's nice to not have a goal, to not have a set format. It's very liberating to just get out of your comfort zone and be in a new space.
Maybe I bring people into that pop world who don't usually find themselves there because there's not enough stuff for them to get excited about otherwise.
I didn't have any role models of artists that were in the same playing field as me - making expensive videos, travelling, marketing and promoting an album.
To me, dance music is a lot of space - to listen to other things than melodies. I think club music and dance music really require a different way of listening.
That excitement of how music makes you want to dance - that's what got me back into it, and that's what 'Honey' is about. Me just being able to enjoy myself again.
I don't think of myself as just a pop artist, but someone who knows she has a bigger meaning. I'm not doing this for myself; I'm doing this because it's my destiny.
It was about being able to dance like Cassidy did, as though no one was watching, as though the moment was infinite enough without needing to document its existence.
The music industry is such a huge machine. There are still a lot of good people in it, but the character of the industry and the culture of the industry is very fast.
As a kid, I didn't know much about Prince - who he was and all the complexities of his personality - but I could still feel very close to him when I listened to his music.
It wasn't easy for me to socialize with other kids when I got back from touring. I felt different. Like we all do, but I didn't feel like I got all the codes. I was a little awkward.
Being onstage and communicating with an audience was part of my life since I was very little, but I was never pushed into singing. My parents were so uninterested in me making music.
When you become famous super young, you learn how to behave by the rules because you're the one that has to take the stress. But that also creates a barrier that I really didn't want.
Technology has a lot to do with how the world is developing at the moment because there are very raw and pure and primal emotions that people are communicating to each other over the Internet.
Prince is king to me. As this half-naked, short black guy who looked like a girl in the 70s and 80s, he was talking about women in a way that was very unusual because he didn't objectify them.
Sometimes I write songs that just come out in a pop format because I grew up on melody and these amazing artists during the 80s. It's my tradition and it's something that I can't really control.
I wondered what things what things became when you no longer needed them, and I wondered what the future would hold once we'd gotten past our personal tragedies and proven them ultimately survivable.
Sure, the Internet is the future, but what we do on the Internet is still very primal. It's all about connecting to other people, sharing emotion. It's our new feathers or face paint. It's all very raw.
I think I'm always adopting a persona. That's how I look at pop music. I don't feel like I have to be myself. I feel like I have to be true to myself, but I don't have to show an exact picture of who I am.
When you're listening to club music, there's no reward. The reward isn't, 'Oh, here's the chorus, here's the lyric that makes sense.' You have to enjoy what it is. You have to enjoy that there's no conclusion.