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" Even if you can't relate to what I'm singing, I hope you can believe in it and see it as something that it is real. "

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" I'm open about having bipolar disorder. I'm open about being of mixed race. I'm open about being bisexual, and I have this wantingness to talk about it, and for me, it's about more than being a role model for any specific community. "

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" When I was in high school, I was a bad kid and a good student. "

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" I'm not going to present myself one way all the time just because it will make me sell best. "

" I end up pleading my case to alternative programmers - you're telling me that my music is too dark for pop, too pop for alternative, and urban radio won't touch it - so we have a record that doesn't fit in. And what is more alternative than that? "

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" There are conspiracy theorists who think I was crafted in a boardroom. Because I'm so very relatable and so very topical and so very Tumblr. "

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