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" 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. "

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

" The hardest thing about writing my second album is that I had 20 years to write my first album. "

" 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 was a weirdo. I think I wanted to be liked, but I didn't have the attention or bother to actually make an effort to be. I also think I had a different perception of what I needed to do to be liked. "

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

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

" A guitar can be so human, so sorrowful, so angry, and I wanted to figure out how to achieve that vibe without having to actually use guitars, because 'Badlands' is a very futuristic record - and making it that in an era of futuristic music is a really hard thing to do! "

" I want to be treated like a musician. "

" 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 would love to write a screenplay for 'Badlands' one day. I don't think I could ever have the patience to do it; I don't even have the patience to write songs. I write some of the shortest songs ever because I don't have the patience. "

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

" You can expect nothing in being a musician, and you have to be just very thankful every time it goes positively for you. "

" 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 love Quentin Tarantino; I love Harmony Korine, Larry Clarke. "

" 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. "

" All the musicians I loved growing up were men. I loved Leonard Cohen, Mick Jagger. I loved Alex Turner from the Arctic Monkeys. Even today, I love Van McCann from Catfish and the Bottlemen and Matt Healy from The 1975. "

" Growing up in the suburbs, I used to listen to punk rock, Brand New, Taking Back Sunday. And no one from my high school listened to it. "

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

" My mom has every issue of 'Billboard' I've ever been in. "

" 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. "

" I feel like, if I'm going to have young, impressionable people listening to my music, then I'm going to respect that. "

" I'm used to packing up and leaving, to condensing myself into a digestible version because people don't have much time to get to know me. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If I am who I am, I'm provocative, candid, and androgynous; there's nothing I can do that will make any fan think, 'I didn't expect that from her.' "

" 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. "