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" The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If I go out there and am myself, and I do what makes me comfortable and what I think is true to my artistry, and they don't like it, then that's fine. I walk off stage, and I know there's nothing there's nothing I could have done differently. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" The cool thing about my show and me is that I'm a writer, and I'm a writer first if I don't have music. "

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" 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. "

" Even if you can't relate to what I'm singing, I hope you can believe in it and see it as something that it is real. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I love Kanye West. I think he's a visionary. He's one of those people for whom I separate his personality from his artistry. "

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

" I consider myself someone who takes a lot of beauty risks, and I've realized what I liar I am. I change my hair a lot, from blue to blonde to bald, but I'm trying to branch out a little more with makeup. "

" I cultivated this fan base that I really didn't really understand or appreciate until I put my first headlining tour up for sale. 500- to 1,000-capacity rooms weren't an underplay for me at the time. I'd never done a tour before! "

" 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. "

" 'Badlands' is a very tangible record; a lot of the sounds were actual things: they were pots and pans, and they were rocks, and they were voices,and instruments used in a way to create a landscape of sound. "

" I was doing some YouTube covers, and I had a decently popular blog on Tumblr. "

" Being a pop-leaning, female artist, you'd think that I'd have my record company breathing down my neck and trying to control everything I'm doing. Actually, they've just kind of let me take the wheel. "

" You numb yourself so you're not terrified when you're on TV at 7 o'clock in the morning with Justin Bieber, who you just met a couple of days before, having to perform in front of millions of people. "

" A guitar can be so human, so sorrowful, so angry, and I wanted to figure out how to achieve that vibe without having to actually use guitars, because 'Badlands' is a very futuristic record - and making it that in an era of futuristic music is a really hard thing to do! "

" 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. "

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