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" In the same way that I'm open when I speak, I'm that open on stage. I feed off the energy of the audience, too, so they're feeling what I'm feeling. "

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" I was big into grunge, like Nirvana and Hole, when I was younger, which has been a really huge inspiration because of its rawness and honesty. "

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" If you say, 'I listen to pop,' you picture this kind of perfect, colorful, polished song. I want to have that, but when you open it, you see this gritty dark - kind of like dancing your tears away. Disguise the sadness in a pop beat. "

" I started to use music almost like a therapist, where it's like, everything that I don't really dare to say or speak about, I can sing about. "

" I've never grown into loving someone. It's, like, either right away or slowly sinks in. "

" The first album that I bought was the Nirvana 'MTV Unplugged in New York' album. "

" It means a lot to everyone around me that I look good, and I don't think it should have to. I just think I should look the way I do. "

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" I would never agree to sing something I didn't feel was 100% me. "

" I am an open book, and I'm fine being me: I'm not a perfect person. "

" I definitely feel I'm outside of the polished pop girl group, which feels right. I don't think I could keep up that polished surface on purpose. "

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