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" Both my best and my worst habit is that I'm very impulsive. "

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" I wanted to write about relationships in a more honest, raw sort of way. Get away from all those cliches about how 'time heals' and how you can be the better person. Less sugar-coating and more 'feel the pain.' "

" When I play a song for someone the first time, if I make 'em laugh, I think, 'Yes, I've succeeded.' "

" I've always liked music that has a darker vein to it. I come from such a safe upbringing - very stable, classic family, everything's nice and good - I was always looking for something different. "

" If you say, 'I listen to pop,' you picture this kind of perfect, colorful, polished song. I want to have that, but when you open it, you see this gritty dark - kind of like dancing your tears away. Disguise the sadness in a pop beat. "

" In the same way that I'm open when I speak, I'm that open on stage. I feed off the energy of the audience, too, so they're feeling what I'm feeling. "

" I think there's always a bit of pain in everything that's ecstatic - relationships and love, they always come with pain. "

" It means a lot to everyone around me that I look good, and I don't think it should have to. I just think I should look the way I do. "

" I'm always exhausted after a show, even if it's just half an hour. "

" When I'm angry, like, if someone gets me really upset, whatever comes into my head, I scream it. "

" The first album that I bought was the Nirvana 'MTV Unplugged in New York' album. "

" The thing that I love about pop music is the simplicity and the directness of it. "

" I thought 'Twinkies' was just a word for 'cookies,' not a specific thing. They kind of scare me a little bit because they last forever. "

" I would never agree to sing something I didn't feel was 100% me. "

" I've always wanted my music to have that desperation, where you just want to strip your clothes off and run down the highway. I want the feeling where you don't really know what to do with yourself - in the vocals, in the production. Everything. "

" Singing gives me a lot of energy. "

" At first, my bedroom had flowers and yellow walls and huge furniture in plastic that was orange and green - and furry green bed cover and everything. Then, I think the day I turned 13, I painted the walls black and put Kurt Cobain on the wall and just changed everything into a dark theme. "

" I was big into grunge, like Nirvana and Hole, when I was younger, which has been a really huge inspiration because of its rawness and honesty. "

" I'm from a fancy, well-raised background. We were very well-behaved and not allowed to swear. It's the kind of place where people hide their problems under the rug and pretend it's all perfect. Eventually, you get sick of that. "

" I started to use music almost like a therapist, where it's like, everything that I don't really dare to say or speak about, I can sing about. "

" I can't live just being content. I can't have a routine. I can't be settled because then I just get really frustrated. "

" I find it really cool when people have this artist persona they can put on. They can go out and act like this other person; I can't pull that off... I can't censor myself. "

" I was always drawn to the self-destructive kind of way. I thought there was something beautiful about it; I don't know why. "

" I always loved performing and being on stage. "

" It's OK to joke about yourself and have self-perspective, but, like, when you constantly put yourself down to get other people to tell you you're good, that annoys me. Have confidence! "

" I'm not from a music family at all. "

" That's kind of how I am - a roller coaster of emotions. "

" A rock star is expected to act like a mess, sound like a mess and look like a mess. People don't expect you to show up on time and be a professional. But when you're a pop star, you have to do all that, look perfect and be a role model. "

" Everything that has to do with sex is somehow... it's the best thing in the world, and it's still the one thing people don't want you to talk about. "

" When people like your music because it has vulnerable honesty, and you're able to comfortably admit to flaws and imperfections, then that's the most liberating thing about being an artist. "

" The fact is, when you date an artist, you have to know that they're going to sing about you. "