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

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" I wear my personality on my sleeve, for sure, and my look is constantly changing because so am I. "

" I think escapism is something artists write about pretty frequently - it's something everyone can relate to, the concept of wanting something more, wanting to find solace, wanting to have something better. "

" 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. "

" The idea of 'Badlands' was creating a space with sound, which is a really difficult thing to do. "

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" 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. "

" When I was in high school, I was a bad kid and a good student. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden. "

" 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. "

" I learned how quickly I could go from having never met someone to having the world think I'm dating them. "

" I had a crazy life for a teenager. I lived in New Jersey, but I'd go to Vermont for three weeks, join a commune, take pictures with the guy I was dating, come back home, and post photos. "

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" 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 a fixer, unfortunately. I'm like, 'Oh, I can fix you.' But it's not just guys I'm dating anymore. It's this entire legion of young girls who tell me they need me to maintain any sort of sanity or peace. "

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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. "

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