“What makes a song last is real content from a mind that is thinking a little bit harder about certain things. A lot of artists don’t really think that hard.”

Time is kind of an amazing thing because you can do so much with it. I think people underestimate time. I don’t want to just sit on my phone for hours.

I really love Linkin Park, and I loved Chester Bennington, and it is horrible what happened to him.

I don’t really get nervous that much, or if I do, only I know. It’s all inside me. I am good at hiding everything.

If it’s good music, it’s good music.

Words are more powerful than some noises. Noises won’t last long. Lyrics are so important, and people don’t realise that.

Sexism is everywhere, bro. I don’t know if it’s ever not somewhere.

I’m a really artistic person, and so, with the live stuff, there’s a lot that I think is really cool.

Heart made of glass and my mind of stone.

All the good girls go to hell.

I really like hip-hop and rap; that’s my main influence. I really wanna be more of a hip-hop artist.

Music gives me courage and takes care of my mind.

I’m gonna make what I want to make, and other people are gonna like what they’re gonna like. It doesn’t really matter.

In the public eye, girls and women with strong perspectives are hated.

I play piano and ukulele, and I taught myself those things just because I wanted to play them.

I always wanted to be a Vine star. I wasn’t, thank God.

I try to interact with my audience and have them be equal to me because they are.

The more you are blessed with experience, the fuller and the more enriched you are in your craft.

Everyone liked me when I went up on the stage at a talent search in elementary school, and that’s when I decided to become a music artist.

It’s very hard to be an artist, on my first album, and I’m like asking for money for a music video for every song – it’s so hard to do. You have to pick your battles for sure, but I definitely want – and I’ve always worked to make it all connect – for all of it to feel cohesive.

Whatever obstacle comes your way, you gotta be prepared to jump over it! And I think that’s what separates the legends from the regular artists. It’s all in how you manage that success, and how you deal with the controversy when it actually comes.

Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age.

I’m no longer an artist, I’m a business partner.

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.

Mark Ryden is my favorite visual artist.