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" If you're presenting yourself with confidence, you can pull off pretty much anything. "

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" I wasn't going to great schools, because my parents didn't believe in public education. They wanted the education to be influenced by their religion, so I was going to these halfway education-slash-Christian schools that were like pop-up shop-style education. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I think that parents grow up with an idea of what they want their kids to be like - and then their kids grow up to be people of themselves, of their own. "

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

" I'll continue to try and balance like a circus act. And I will just fight to always tell the truth. Even if it's difficult. "

" 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. "

" I fall in love every time. And I don't really fall in love a lot, but when I do, I fall hard. "

" I did a lot of thrift and vintage. I would mix those pieces into some of the more inexpensive items from Express, Gap, Old Navy, and Clothestime. "

" I write my songs because I've lived them. "

" My whole thing is to agree to disagree and to have respect because nothing can really be changed and you wouldn't want to ruin their happiness - even if that happiness is ignorance. "

" It was so draining. Going to parties to rub elbows with so-and-so and act like it's no big deal, when really all I was doing was hoping I'd have the success they had. "

" I'm not defined by where I came from. I never took part in the rules and hatred that sometimes go along with religion. But if my parents are happy with what they believe, then I'm happy to stay out of their way. We agree to disagree. "

" I was never really attached to a clique, and I wanted to be in all the different groups; I was never a one-group kind of person. I think that's still part of my personality today. "

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

" I never live in the present. I'd do interviews and people will say, 'Isn't this great?' or 'Can you believe?' And I would react, like, 'No, I can't believe it because I'm not living in this moment.' "

" You look at someone like Beyonce singing 'Single Ladies,' when we all know she's married. Some of it is just for entertainment. "

" I'm not defined by where I came from. "

" 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. "

" People always ask me, 'What is it that you regret?' And I say, 'nothing, because I could not buy what I've learned.' And I apply those things to my life I learn. And hopefully, hopefully it helps me to be a better human in the future and make better choices. "

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

" I just like having fun. "

" I wanted it to be like Amy Grant, but it didn't pan out that way. My label actually went bankrupt, and I was left without a home. "

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

" I see everything through a spiritual lens. "

" I'm kind of a good girl - and I'm not. I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect. I'm a bad girl because I like to tease. I know that I have sex appeal in my deck of cards. But I like to get people thinking. That's what the stories in my music do. "