“I’m not used to writing about happy emotions, I’m just used to pulling from my sad or angry – happy emotions are very hard for me to portray in music.”

It’s just weird because like when I was writing Cry Baby I like the only thing that I was thinking about, when writing it, was the concepts and the visuals, and the way that it sounded kind of happened naturally.

I don’t really think about what people think of my music, and how they listen to it or what my demographic is.

Make sure this [music industry] is what you love to do, and you can’t imagine doing anything else.

When I first started writing the album, “Cry Baby” was a song that I really wanted to write because it represented all of these personal insecurities that I had for a long time.

Cry Baby is a character so I think that the next album is going to be about a specific thing in her life or another place in her world. It’s going to be a bit deeper into a bigger picture.

I think, being emotional is this thing that people think you’re not strong. They don’t look at you as a strong person, and it’s weird ‘cuz honestly being emotional has nothing to do with your strength.

I obviously have a different connection to each song in a different way, and they all mean something different to me.

It’s like visual is super important to me. So if I am writing a song, like, I have to have the title.

I love directing my music videos and writing video treatments, and I think it’s all just because I love the visual aspect of it as well.

Eventually I realized that Cry Baby was a character that was based off of me, and that we had a lot of similarities.

I think that every decision I make in my life is based off of an emotion – and it definitely hurts me in some situations, and helps in some situations, like obviously writing and stuff is my favourite thing to do because I get to use all of my emotions and express them in that way.

I’m glad I got to introduce myself to America by doing a Britney [Spears] song, haha!

I like pop music because it can really affect a large amount of people and if I tell stories and spread messages that I think are really important for people to be aware of, I would want it to be on the biggest platform and I feel like pop is that. I use it as a way to tell stories.

There are obviously so many artists that are very inspiring, but I can’t say that they like – that I have someone in mind that is like a creative direction of where I want to go as an artist. I think I’m just doing my own thing.

I definitely have worked trying to create music that inspires girls to feel confident and strong, and feel like they can do anything.

A lot of people say if you can’t love yourself, then you can’t love others. It’s always different, but I definitely have loved a lot in my life.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, and watch me spark like a match tossed to tinder.

I don’t think your ability to fight has anything to do with how big you are. It’s to do with how much anger is in you.

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.

A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it is the deceit that angers her more than the faults.

The way the people around you position themselves around you to get in your pockets and in your mind is infuriating to me.

The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men’s pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.

The finest fury is the most controlled.

If you are perpetually angry, depressed, confused, and unloving, or your attention is elsewhere, it won’t matter how successful you become or who is in your life – you won’t enjoy any of it.