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" I'm sensitive and get easily upset and insulted. "

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" I was a slightly overweight, spiky-fringed, rat's-tailed '80s girl who was just showing up. That's all I've ever really done to get here, just kept showing up. Even when I didn't want to. That's what I do. "

" I love TV, and I love movies, and I pull so much content from the drama in all of those mediums and put them into songs. "

" All I really want to do is things I haven't done. 'I'm gonna put a paper bag on my head and be on the cover of 'Billboard,' see what I can get away with - if they'll let me.' And they let me. And I am literally giggling inside for, like, a month that I got away with it. "

" I don't go to shows because I just want to listen to the music performed live. I want to get to know the person who's performing it. Or I want to, like, take away a sense that I had an experience that nobody else is going to have again, or a unique experience for that moment. "

" I don't want to be followed by paparazzi; that terrifies me. "

" I don't want to be critiqued about the way that I look on the Internet. "

" I do not love performing. I get really scared. "

" So where a lot of people will spend three weeks on one song, I will write 10 in three weeks. Maybe the song that they sculpt is going to be as successful as just one of the 10 that I wrote. "

" I hope I am a psychotherapist's dream. I've spent enough hours in therapy. "

" I have never made money selling records. I have never really made money touring, either, or with merchandise, surprisingly. But I do make money by just having my songs in the background of television shows or in commercials or movie trailers. That's been really good. "

" I was too embarrassed to tell anyone I wanted to make a movie because I thought it would be seen as a vanity project because I was a singer. "

" I'm just trying to work out a way to be a singer and to create cool content. I'm willing to do that as an entertainer. But I'm not willing to give up my actual self. "

" It takes me, like, half an hour to write the lyrics for a song. They just come out. "

" I don't care what people think of me, unless they think I'm mean or something, but I don't care if they think I'm like someone else because I know I'm not - I'm a total weirdo. I'm not selling a dream; I'm not selling fame like it is some sort of fantastic thing. I'm just trying to sell music and get on with my real life. "

" I don't want to have to do production, which is very technical. I don't enjoy that. "

" I don't need to be rich anymore; I don't need to be a millionaire. "

" A lot of people come up to me expecting to meet the person they have seen perform. It's not going to happen, unless my mania, my stage person, responds to them and not the real me. "

" A lot of the time, I don't actually relate to what I'm writing about in pop songs. "

" That's the thing about awards - it's for the people who do all the hard work behind the scenes. An award is just a clap at them. "

" I love hip hop, and I have a bunch of urban songs I write for fun that I can't put on my albums because people would laugh and point. "

" If a transporter could send me from the bed with the dogs watching crappy TV to the stage five minutes before I go on, then immediately back to bed, I would love it. "

" I can clear my mind, and lyrics just come out; it's very easy for me. "

" I love the idea of how fast can we make the song, but I don't think that I'm necessarily, like, a super-talented songwriter. I think I'm just really productive. One out of 10 songs is a hit. "

" This is a sick business. It's so sad. "

" I'm a fan of the Strokes, so my big fantasy was that one day I would get to sing with them. "

" I used to be addicted to 'Reader's Digest' growing up. I would read the stories about love, and I guess that's where I became a hopeless romantic. I draw from that a lot. "

" When you're entertaining all day long and that's your work, you end up really very tired. You don't have a lot of energy left over for your loved ones. "

" I like to sing, and I like to make records - and that part is fun. "

" If anyone besides famous people knew what it was like to be a famous person, they would never want to be famous. "