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" It's really exciting to see all those people that exist in numbers online translate into tickets and then into faces, handshakes, pictures, stories. "

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" 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. "

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

" I'm open about having bipolar disorder. I'm open about being of mixed race. I'm open about being bisexual, and I have this wantingness to talk about it, and for me, it's about more than being a role model for any specific community. "

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

" I'm a musician with a very unique mental state, I suppose. I'm agoraphobic. I'm scared to leave my house. I haven't been alone in, like, two years. I'm either with my boyfriend or my assistant, my manager or my tour manager. I won't go anywhere by myself; I'm too terrified. "

" 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. "

" At the end of the day, every decision I make about my music is about creating a collective. "

" Everything that I hate about myself goes away when I was onstage. "

" Most artists, their 60th show was in front of no one. My first show was in front of 1,200 people. "

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

" I was a fan of One Direction when I was 16, but I was also a fan of Bring Me The Horizon and hardcore bands. "

" Every time I got to play a show, even if it's already sold out, I'm so scared no one's going to come. "

" I'm learning slowly to not be as much of a control freak. I can't afford to be all the time, but I'm getting better at communicating. Delegating parts of my vision for other people to execute has made it an easier process for knowing what I want, and what people can handle, and what I should probably save for myself. "

" I want any kid who listens to my music to see that I am confident with all elements of my personality that I can't change. "

" You can be accessible without catering to an audience. "

" So many people are concerned with being the perfect 'something.' Whether it's the perfect singer, the perfect sexy girl, or the perfect feminist. I don't want to be the perfect anything. "

" As a songwriter, pop music really is a love and a joy and a science, and I feel like a lot of people look at pop music with a very formulaic perspective in numbers and patterns, but an outsider would think that the process is very natural. "

" Please don't erase my race because I'm white-passing. There is literally nothing I can do about my complexion. "

" I want to be treated like a musician. "

" When you're an artist, you're expected to describe yourself in interviews every day in five words. "

" Every song I write is autobiographical and is about people, and that's one of the things that gets complicated. You have to decide where's your place as a songwriter. "

" I'm a human, and I'm multidimensional. If I was the perfect form of anything, I'd be boring. If I was a free spirit all the time, I would be boring; I would lack depth. If I was dark and enigmatic all the time, then I would lack relatability. "

" My mom is awesome. She's really young. My mom is 40, and she raised me listening to Nirvana and Courtney Love and Coldplay, Gin Blossoms, The Cranberries, and stuff. Like, my early, early memories are of being a little kid running around in floral skirts and Doc Martens when I was, like, three. "

" 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. "

" Every 16-year-old person has a love for pop in them because pop is popular. "

" People around me like me the best when I'm depressed because I'm a bit more passive. "

" I made up 'Badlands'; anything I say, goes. I came to realize I was materializing a metaphor for my mental state. "

" I put so much of myself out there and make myself so accessible that sometimes I fear I make myself too accessible. "

" That's one thing the musicians don't remember: you don't choose your demographic - they choose you. "

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