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

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" I love Quentin Tarantino; I love Harmony Korine, Larry Clarke. "

" Whether it's writing songs, being on stage, being interviewed, meeting fans - I just try to be myself, which is kind of exhausting because it almost feels like it never shuts off. "

" People are so afraid to talk about real things, but they're experiences that everyone goes through. "

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

" I think, growing up in a small town - I grew up in a lot of different places. I grew up in a city environment, a more suburban environment, a more rural environment. That's the beauty of New Jersey is you get a lot of different types of living. "

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" It usually takes me 20 to 90 minutes to write a song because once I start, I don't stop. If I start writing a song, and you try to have a conversation with me, you're a bad person. "

" I didn't even realize I was writing songs - I thought I was just being witty and sarcastic. "

" I was always running off to the city, whether it was Philly or New York, going somewhere where there was something more for me. "

" You can tell if there's magic in something. When you start it, you want to finish it and you want it to be perfect. If you're not inspired, and you're working hard to pull inspiration from somewhere and make a song something it's not, then it's very contrived, and I don't like to write music that's contrived. "

" 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. "

" In one week, I went from being a girl who owed a guy thousands of dollars - my manager Anthony was paying for my outfits, paying for my food; I was sleeping in his parents' basement - to taking meetings with every major label in America. The next morning, I had a record deal and wrote him a cheque to pay back all that money. "

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" I write songs very quickly, so the 20 minutes of joy I get out of writing a song doesn't compare to the two months of joy I get engaging with the people who like my music. "

" My EP, 'Room 93,' was all about isolation - it was based on the idea of being in a hotel room and being totally alone with yourself or that other person. "

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

" 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. "

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