“I’m a freak in the fondest way possible.”

lf. I wasn’t going to try too hard to conform, and I knew that it could possibly not work out.

You can march to your own beat. It’s so hard sometimes in our country because conformity is the way things are pushed.

There’s no regrets for me.

I try to go throughout my daily life just as if nothing has changed, but you don’t have much anonymity anymore, which feels really good.

After my tour I had time to stay at home, be with my boyfriend and hang out with friends and that brought me down to earth and helped me write music from a more relaxed place.

I just talk a lot, that’s the problem.

Wait a minute, I’m a fan of yours; you can’t be a fan of mine!

I get why certain actors want to stay in the closet.

Fame is a very strange animal.

Los Angeles can be a really sad city.

I’m trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.

I was looking for something and I wasn’t sure what it was. [After experimenting with] certain funguses,

I breeze through Twitter – I look at the mentions, the pictures, the videos.

Fantasy is so much hotter than reality most of the time.

There’s always gonna be people that are scared of it. But at the end of the day you give those bullies, those people, that are so ignorant, if you give them the power to affect you, you’re letting them win.

When you dance and move around it creates a different reaction from the audience – they love it.

Our democracy is the centerpiece of who we are as a nation. And it is the fondest hope of all Americans that we can help bring democracy to every corner of the world.

It is my fondest wish that in the fullness of time, the American people will look back on the Franken presidency as something of a mixed bag and not as a complete disaster.