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I want to be treated like a musician.
I'm not actually even a very good singer. I'm not.
You can be accessible without catering to an audience.
My mom has every issue of 'Billboard' I've ever been in.
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.
Everything that I hate about myself goes away when I was onstage.
Pop music really is a love and a joy and a science [of songwriting].
When you're a teenage girl, a lot of being pretty has to do with your hair.
Every 16-year-old person has a love for pop in them because pop is popular.
I was doing some YouTube covers, and I had a decently popular blog on Tumblr.
I used to work at a punk venue in Pennsylvania because I wanted to be near music.
People around me like me the best when I'm depressed because I'm a bit more passive.
If I start writing a song and you try to have a conversation with me, you're a bad person.
If I want to hang out with people, they unfortunately need to be working as often as I am.
I didn't even realize I was writing songs - I thought I was just being witty and sarcastic.
At the end of the day, every decision I make about my music is about creating a collective.
I'm not going to present myself one way all the time just because it will make me sell best.
I have to remember for every kid saying something awful, there's a kid saying something great.
The hardest thing about writing my second album is that I had 20 years to write my first album.
Before Guadalcanal the enemy advanced at his pleasure - after Guadalcanal he retreated at ours.
The idea of 'Badlands' was creating a space with sound, which is a really difficult thing to do.
Most artists, their 60th show was in front of no one. My first show was in front of 1,200 people.
I wear my personality on my sleeve, for sure, and my look is constantly changing because so am I.
When you're an artist, you're expected to describe yourself in interviews every day in five words.
I love pop music, but at the same time, I'm seeking to write whatever I'm organically inclined to.
People are so afraid to talk about real things, but they're experiences that everyone goes through.
That's one thing the musicians don't remember: you don't choose your demographic - they choose you.
Every time I got to play a show, even if it's already sold out, I'm so scared no one's going to come.
The cool thing about my show and me is that I'm a writer, and I'm a writer first if I don't have music.
I learned how quickly I could go from having never met someone to having the world think I'm dating them.
I was a fan of One Direction when I was 16, but I was also a fan of Bring Me The Horizon and hardcore bands.
In 2016, makeup has become an incredible passion and hobby for men and women, but it hasn't become mainstream.
Please don't erase my race because I'm white-passing. There is literally nothing I can do about my complexion.
My first album was called 'Badlands,' and it's something that I think I'm most proud of having done in my life.
I made up 'Badlands'; anything I say, goes. I came to realize I was materializing a metaphor for my mental state.
Being bisexual, being bipolar, being biracial - it's been used to define me, but I am desperate to be indefinable.
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 put so much of myself out there and make myself so accessible that sometimes I fear I make myself too accessible.
I feel like, if I'm going to have young, impressionable people listening to my music, then I'm going to respect that.
You can expect nothing in being a musician, and you have to be just very thankful every time it goes positively for you.
It doesn't matter how many private jets you take, how much money you make, how famous you get, keep putting in the hours.
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.
I love Kanye West. I think he's a visionary. He's one of those people for whom I separate his personality from his artistry.
I was always running off to the city, whether it was Philly or New York, going somewhere where there was something more for me.
The environment around you shapes who you are. How you handle an emergency or how you react when someone is rude to you, that's you.
Growing up in the suburbs, I used to listen to punk rock, Brand New, Taking Back Sunday. And no one from my high school listened to it.
I put 'Ghost' online hoping to make a couple hundred bucks, but then the next day, I took meetings with five different record companies.
I'm used to packing up and leaving, to condensing myself into a digestible version because people don't have much time to get to know me.
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.