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" I just think I have too much anxiety to listen to music. Sometimes it feels like noise, and sometimes it's so affecting that I can't recover from it. "

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Doing The Right Thing

" Biochemical interactions are very interesting to me. "

" I love food, so having a lot of food allergies now and just having a really sensitive body, it forces me to be very mindful and conscious and eat when I'm hungry, not just when I'm bored, and just really slow down. Everything in moderation. "

" Reading makes me so sleepy. Honestly, I'm a visual learner. "

" It starts with trusting yourself, even if people are telling you you're too young to trust yourself. "

" My parents are really conservative. My dad is Muslim, and my mom is the most conservative woman you've ever met. They're very aristocratic in the most quaint suburban way. "

" I'm very into details, so I watch movies just for the details. "

" I have an abundant amount of love in my life, and I'm grateful for that. "

" I was quiet in high school and relatively unpopular, so being noticed is not something that I'm used to. "

" Sugar makes me feel crazy - like, makes my body hurt kind of a thing. I don't really eat fruit because it has a lot of sugar. I try not to eat a lot of red meat, but every now and again, I feel like I need iron or something - something that I'm missing. "

" I've fried my hair off. I've shaved my hair off. I've done it all. "

" I don't like to shop. It creates so much anxiety. "

" I don't think I'm inherently feminist. I think the universe wants me to be feminist, and I think I resonate with that. I think it just chose me to be this female energy... thing. And I'm very drawn to female energy, but I don't really have any prerequisites in feminism. I just roll with it. "

" I don't listen to my music if I'm not making it. "

" I went through this phase of Spandex, high heels, and fur coats when I was my late teens and early twenties; before then, I lived in overalls and baggy T-shirts. "

" I've always loved playing with hair. I used to want dreads like Lauryn Hill, but my mom wouldn't let me. "

" I love empowering women. I think it's crazy: if you ever try to belittle women, you're playing yourself - I ride with whoever rides with me. "

" When your parents regulate everything you hear and everything you intake, it forces you to get creative in other ways. It sparked the writing bug and the very overactive imagination. Because I've had a lot of time by myself and a lot of time isolated from regular culture, I created my own. "

" Oh, Instagram stresses me out on a very deep level! "

" When I just decided to be myself, that's when you get questions like, 'How do you feel about feminism?' And I have no idea; this is just when I decide what I'm not tolerating and what I genuinely think and a little bit in between. "

" The album that defined my childhood was probably Ella Fitzgerald's 'Greatest Hits,' whereas my half-sister, who didn't have the same conservative upbringing, was listening to Cash Money and crunk. "