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" You don't know fear until it's 7 A.M. and freezing cold on live television, and you're not sure if Justin Bieber is going to kiss you or not. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" If I am who I am, I'm provocative, candid, and androgynous; there's nothing I can do that will make any fan think, 'I didn't expect that from her.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I end up pleading my case to alternative programmers - you're telling me that my music is too dark for pop, too pop for alternative, and urban radio won't touch it - so we have a record that doesn't fit in. And what is more alternative than that? "

" For me, writing about hotels is like writing about being in a parallel universe. The sense of voyeurism, and the sense of removedness, and there are all these people silently above you and next to you. "

" Being bisexual, being bipolar, being biracial - it's been used to define me, but I am desperate to be indefinable. "

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

" To be fair, I did come out of nowhere. 'Ghost' was the first song I ever did in a studio, my first time ever cutting a professional vocal. "

" 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! "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I like writing about places, about people and environments. When I create a world, it lets me go in and define the details of that world. "

" 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 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. "