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" The truth is, I've always been wracked with self-loathing and terrible, paralysing depression. "

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" I just want to live my life a little freely and not adhere to any schedule - just make music and have fun. "

" And then there's all these other creeps that surround your band and suck off you like leeches and try to manipulate you and your business. You have to watch like a hawk. I'm always ready to fight. I see it very much as a battle. "

" I have a lot of very close girlfriends and sisters - I'm from an all female family. My father often quips that even the cat was neutered! "

" It's everywhere, constant criticism of women's appearance in magazines and online. It's not easy to navigate. "

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" Mozart was a punk, which people seem to forget. He was a naughty, naughty boy. "

" There's nothing I've done that I feel a lot of regret over because I stuck to my guns, even when it got uncomfortable - and it will get uncomfortable because you're going up against the wall. "

" I think it's a great thing to have failed in life and then pulled yourself up by the boot straps and actually done something, because then you appreciate it more. "

" How you present yourself is nobody's business but your own. The stylists have an opinion. The hair people have an opinion. The fans and the management have opinions. Ultimately, you have to trust that you are the safe-keeper of yourself. "

" People don't associate red hair, pale skin, and freckles with beauty. "

" I want to hear an alternative viewpoint, and I don't want girls to be defanged and declawed and pretty and mute. "

" I think a lot of people in their lives feel like they don't fit in, even if it looks like they do. People feel like outsiders even if others think we, the lives we live, have everything. If they are popular or they have everything they are supposed to have. Even then, people still don't feel quite included. "

" I think young artists are always inspiring because they are coming at worlds from a different point of view. "

" It's really difficult to navigate attention and stardom and celebrity status and still try to maintain yourself and hold onto your intelligence and integrity. It's really challenging. "

" I've got no timetable. I'm sort of sick of timetables, to be honest. "

" Until we command the exact same salary as every male counterpart, I feel a political desire to stand by other women. If we don't stand together, that equality will never be fully realized, and that bothers me. "

" I'm fairly in control and I don't like to flirt particularly. I mean, obviously if I meet someone who I think is hot, of course I'll want to flirt with him, But in general I don't use it in day-to-day life. "

" I'm a loud person; I love noise and aggression. I crave contact. "

" The sensation of never feeling good enough or pretty enough will always be there. It's a constant dialogue, and you just learn to be more powerful than that other voice. When you hear it come up, you shut it down. "

" People in day-to-day life tend to skim the surface of things and be polite and careful, and that's not the language I speak. I like talking about feelings, fears and memories, anguish and joy, and I find it in music. "

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" Starbucks is my main fix and it's usually you people working in there - sometimes they're actually shaking. It just makes me feel horrendous because I've been in that situation. "

" I just am fascinated by other female artists, probably because I feel a kinship with them, no matter who they are and what they do. "

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" Selling millions of albums is a sign you've infiltrated the culture. "