“I feel like I write so that people can think of it as theirs. If my song is exactly about your life right now, then it is – I don’t even want to say that it’s mine, because it’s yours.”

My fans are my siblings.

I don’t know how to function without music.

Sometimes it’s flattering when people copy you, but sometimes it gets to a breaking point.

Being an artist doesn’t just mean you have a song. That doesn’t make you an artist.

I like writing about things that aren’t real.

I don’t even call them fans. I don’t like that. They’re literally just a part of my life; they’re a part of my family.

I’m in love, not with anybody else – Just with myself.

Don’t talk to me like you anybody.

I’m trying to show everybody that I’m a girl, and I’m five foot four, and you can do anything you want, no matter your gender. It’s your world, too!

Smiling makes me feel weak and not in control and not powerful and small.

Don’t feel bad for wanting to keep your family safe.

A bitch is a bitch but a dog is a mans best friend

People are terrified of me, and I want them to be.

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.

People think you have to go through something to write about it, and you absolutely do not. You can write about, like, a shoe. It’s a story.

if i’m not here to love you what am i here for.

You do not have to love what is going on in your life, but you must accept that it, whatever it is, is going on. As long as you do not accept reality, you are powerless to define the role you will play.

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

The hardest thing to do is work hard when no one is watching.

One of the deepest principles of life and leadership: it’s not about you.

The bat is not a toy, it’s a weapon. It gives me everything in life, which helps me to do everything on the field.

There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Life doesn’t give you all the practice races you need.

Love to me is someone telling me, ‘I want to be with you for the rest of my life, and if you needed me to I’d jump out of a plane for you.’