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" I wrote songs when I was little, and I wrote a journal, but I don't think I knew how to let that truth come out yet. "

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" I've always been the opposite of mainstream. I march to my own beat. It's the only way I know. "

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" When you become famous at 19, it does a number in your head, so you find romance in the mundane - isn't it so great that a guy would pick me up at my house and take me to a restaurant? "

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" Fame can be just so annoying because people are so critical of you. You can't just say, 'hi'. You say hi and people whisper' man did you see the way she said hi? What an attitude. "

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" The praise for 'Cape Fear' will help me work more artfully - I can work with real artists, like Robert De Niro and the directors, and then go to artland, which is the best land to be in in this world. "

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