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" I love Kanye West. I think he's a visionary. He's one of those people for whom I separate his personality from his artistry. "

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" You numb yourself so you're not terrified when you're on TV at 7 o'clock in the morning with Justin Bieber, who you just met a couple of days before, having to perform in front of millions of people. "

" Whether it's writing songs, being on stage, being interviewed, meeting fans - I just try to be myself, which is kind of exhausting because it almost feels like it never shuts off. "

" I put 'Ghost' online hoping to make a couple hundred bucks, but then the next day, I took meetings with five different record companies. "

" So many people are concerned with being the perfect 'something.' Whether it's the perfect singer, the perfect sexy girl, or the perfect feminist. I don't want to be the perfect anything. "

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

" I cultivated this fan base that I really didn't really understand or appreciate until I put my first headlining tour up for sale. 500- to 1,000-capacity rooms weren't an underplay for me at the time. I'd never done a tour before! "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The environment around you shapes who you are. How you handle an emergency or how you react when someone is rude to you, that's you. "

" 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. "

" In 2016, makeup has become an incredible passion and hobby for men and women, but it hasn't become mainstream. "

" I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden. "

" I'm a musician with a very unique mental state, I suppose. I'm agoraphobic. I'm scared to leave my house. I haven't been alone in, like, two years. I'm either with my boyfriend or my assistant, my manager or my tour manager. I won't go anywhere by myself; I'm too terrified. "

" 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. "

" I want to be treated like a musician. "

" I think escapism is something artists write about pretty frequently - it's something everyone can relate to, the concept of wanting something more, wanting to find solace, wanting to have something better. "

" I consider myself someone who takes a lot of beauty risks, and I've realized what I liar I am. I change my hair a lot, from blue to blonde to bald, but I'm trying to branch out a little more with makeup. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think, growing up in a small town - I grew up in a lot of different places. I grew up in a city environment, a more suburban environment, a more rural environment. That's the beauty of New Jersey is you get a lot of different types of living. "

" Everything that I hate about myself goes away when I was onstage. "

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

" Being a musician, people ask you a lot about what musicians inspire you, and there's plenty of musicians that I love and respect, but I think that I'm the most inspired by cinema. "

" 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. "

" In a city, there's more room to be, where in a small town, you have to squish yourself down a little bit. And it's exciting for me to be pursuing a career where I don't have to be small. "

" I learned how quickly I could go from having never met someone to having the world think I'm dating them. "

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

" It's really exciting to see all those people that exist in numbers online translate into tickets and then into faces, handshakes, pictures, stories. "

" I'm not actually even a very good singer. I'm not. "