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" Every time I got to play a show, even if it's already sold out, I'm so scared no one's going to come. "

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" I was doing some YouTube covers, and I had a decently popular blog on Tumblr. "

" I was obsessed with learning about social behaviors. I remember explaining to my mom that kids on my soccer team were fighting because of dyads and triads. "

" I'm learning slowly to not be as much of a control freak. I can't afford to be all the time, but I'm getting better at communicating. Delegating parts of my vision for other people to execute has made it an easier process for knowing what I want, and what people can handle, and what I should probably save for myself. "

" I like writing about places, about people and environments. When I create a world, it lets me go in and define the details of that world. "

" My mom is awesome. She's really young. My mom is 40, and she raised me listening to Nirvana and Courtney Love and Coldplay, Gin Blossoms, The Cranberries, and stuff. Like, my early, early memories are of being a little kid running around in floral skirts and Doc Martens when I was, like, three. "

" 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. "

" I'm 21 years old, and it's kind of uncomfortable for me to talk about, but I'm in the 1 percent as far as my income and tax bracket. But now that I'm here, there's no amount of money you can wave in front of my face that will make me understand depriving people of human rights. "

" I love pop music, but at the same time, I'm seeking to write whatever I'm organically inclined to. "

" I want to be treated like a musician. "

" I hate feeling like a prisoner. I show up somewhere, and I can't explore the city because there's, like, 6,000 to 10,000 people on the lookout for me. "

" If I go out there and am myself, and I do what makes me comfortable and what I think is true to my artistry, and they don't like it, then that's fine. I walk off stage, and I know there's nothing there's nothing I could have done differently. "

" As a songwriter, pop music really is a love and a joy and a science, and I feel like a lot of people look at pop music with a very formulaic perspective in numbers and patterns, but an outsider would think that the process is very natural. "

" The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people. "

" I wear my personality on my sleeve, for sure, and my look is constantly changing because so am I. "

" I had a crazy life for a teenager. I lived in New Jersey, but I'd go to Vermont for three weeks, join a commune, take pictures with the guy I was dating, come back home, and post photos. "

" Every 16-year-old person has a love for pop in them because pop is popular. "

" It usually takes me 20 to 90 minutes to write a song because once I start, I don't stop. If I start writing a song, and you try to have a conversation with me, you're a bad person. "

" When you're a teenage girl, a lot of being pretty has to do with your hair. "

" I'm a fixer, unfortunately. I'm like, 'Oh, I can fix you.' But it's not just guys I'm dating anymore. It's this entire legion of young girls who tell me they need me to maintain any sort of sanity or peace. "

" I was a fan of One Direction when I was 16, but I was also a fan of Bring Me The Horizon and hardcore bands. "

" People are so afraid to talk about real things, but they're experiences that everyone goes through. "

" You don't know fear until it's 7 A.M. and freezing cold on live television, and you're not sure if Justin Bieber is going to kiss you or not. "

" Every song I write is autobiographical and is about people, and that's one of the things that gets complicated. You have to decide where's your place as a songwriter. "

" I want any kid who listens to my music to see that I am confident with all elements of my personality that I can't change. "

" My first album was called 'Badlands,' and it's something that I think I'm most proud of having done in my life. "

" I love films that show people in a way that's so real it's almost unsettling, and that's what really inspires me because I write about people. I write about people that I know, so I want to portray them and portray myself in a way that is unapologetic. "

" Most artists, their 60th show was in front of no one. My first show was in front of 1,200 people. "

" You can be accessible without catering to an audience. "

" Being a pop-leaning, female artist, you'd think that I'd have my record company breathing down my neck and trying to control everything I'm doing. Actually, they've just kind of let me take the wheel. "