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" I love hearing my song on the radio the first time, but when it comes on again, I change the station. I already have so much of the spotlight on me. I don't need any more. "

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" I grew up not really having anything, so the idea that I can take care of my family and my friends now is a really cool bonus. "

" I'm still driving along on the pop freeway of life. Thinking even further into the future, I definitely want to make an acoustic record. I want to try lots of different things. "

" I am so grateful for all the love and support I've had from people around the world. "

" The media tried to destroy my parents and has taken things completely out of context, but there's not a whole lot you can do in terms of fighting back. You have to hope that it passes, which it always does. But they have to be careful. They didn't necessarily sign up for this. "

" I just like having fun. "

" I was a hop-around. I hung out with the rockabilly crew, the guys who were trying to be rappers, the funny kids. "

" My parents are very quirky, eccentric. They have their own world. "

" I'm okay with having horrible lower teeth. "

" Fame is, I think, just a disgusting by-product of what I do. "

" My career is like an artichoke. People might think that the leaves are tasty and buttered up and delicious, and they don't even know that there's something magical hidden at the base of it. There's a whole other side of me that people didn't know existed. "

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" People don't understand that I have a great relationship with my parents - like, how that can exist. There isn't any judgment. They don't necessarily agree with everything I do, but I don't necessarily agree with everything they do. "

" I come from a very non-accepting family, but I'm very accepting. "

" Sometimes I can be distracted by the glamour and the fabulousness. "

" I still want to make a pop record. I want to make a more sonically current pop record. I maybe want to make people move a little bit more. "

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" Find out what your gift is and nurture it. "

" I'm not going to be everything to everyone. "

" My sister travels with me, and she's the person who keeps me in line, whether I like it or not. I trust her and also have a good, healthy fear of her. "

" I just want to make it very clear that I come from very humble beginnings, and I worked for everything! "

" My mother is very emotional as well, but my dad is more of the guts of the family. He was the main preacher, so he kind of had this little Pentecostal flair, but they are born-again. "

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" I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect. I'm a bad girl because I like to tease. "

" Oh, I will always be honest with my music. The records are black boxes for me. Like if you want to know who I am, my views, my perspective, things I love, things I hate, my convictions, my anthems. I've never let people's opinions affect the way I write. "

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" I'm okay with having bad dance moves. I'm okay with having horrible lower teeth. That's what makes me me, and for some reason it's worked out all right. "

" I can't just be the girl who sang 'I Kissed a Girl.' I have to leave a legacy. "

" One thing I can't do, and I hope that there are other people out there that feel the same way, is climb a rope. Oh my gosh, it's so hard to climb rope! It's all about grip and arms. "

" At my second record label, they told me and other female artists that some of us were going on the chopping block. I was 19... and it was devastating. "

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" I really like to look like a history book. I can look 1940s, I can look 1970s hippie-chic, or sometimes I'll pull that '80s Brooklyn hip-hop kid with the door-knocker earrings. "

" I see everything through a spiritual lens. "

" I got a fantastic person to work me out and get me into really good shape. "