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I have to stop eating so much grilled cheese and chocolate chip cookies and start really working on everything!
I want my music to be treated as a book or a movie. It's not about the one single: it's about the bigger picture.
There are a lot of people who go their whole lives without truly knowing what love is, or ever experiencing that.
I never had a lot of friends growing up so having this insane amount of love and support really means a lot to me.
With 'Pity Party,' it's the first time seeing my vision come to life in front of my face. I'm super happy about it.
I'll always cling to these little girl dresses at vintage shops, and I can never wear them because they're so tiny!
Eventually I realized that Cry Baby was a character that was based off of me, and that we had a lot of similarities.
I obviously have a different connection to each song in a different way, and they all mean something different to me.
I definitely fall in love quickly, and I'm very in love with being in love. But it is hard for me to write about love.
I stay away from the title of 'role model.' I want to be a more realistic role model - not a perfect Barbie role model.
I listen to a lot of music. But I definitely haven't looked at an artist and like thought I want to have a song like this.
My music is like a baby pink frosted cake with sprinkles, but when you cut into it, there's a gooey, dark chocolate center.
Please understand that I make music to express myself, and if you know anything about me, you know that I'm nothing but honest.
I was genuinely happy when I wrote that song [Training Wheels] and very in love. That's a very rare emotion to evoke out of me.
Cry Baby is very close to my heart. I feel like I am her in a lot of ways. I want to continue making music from her perspective.
I definitely have worked trying to create music that inspires girls to feel confident and strong, and feel like they can do anything.
I was always called a cry baby, and I was one. I cried a lot as a child. In fact, I still cry a few times a day. I'm still a cry baby.
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.
'Cry Baby' is like this fairytale version of me. A lot of it is based on real events, and some of it is made up to make it more whimsical.
I had been writing songs for awhile - since I was 14 - and playing guitar, but I never really knew how to go about making an actual career.
I really loved taking photos when I was younger. I think my love for photography sparked my love for creating the visuals to support my music.
Everyone is allowed to be vulnerable. I think women and men and dogs and cats and ants and aliens can all express themselves and be vulnerable.
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.
Working on this album has been very emotional and super personal, and creating this character 'Cry Baby' helped me deal with my own insecurities.
Part of the problem with America is that letting go of emotions is viewed as a weakness, but it's my strength. That enabled me to write my songs.
I feel it's my job as the artist who is making the music to pair it with visuals that I see in my head while writing the music in the first place.
When I'm done with my last album, I want to make a movie with Tim Burton telling the story of all of the albums connected. That's my biggest dream.
I have a song called 'Training Wheels,' and it's about being in love with someone and taking it to the next level by taking off the training wheels.
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.
I also made a lot of really great friends on that show [the Voice], so that's one of the most important things that I've taken out of that experience.
I've always written the storyboards for the music videos, and it's been hard working with directors trying to get them to understand what I'm thinking.
The way that I dress is the way I've always dressed. The way I've eaten is how I've always eaten. I dress like a 5-year-old, and I eat like a 5-year-old.
I have definitely noticed I am very passionate. So if I'm fighting with someone I'll be SO super loud and aggressive, and make sure that my point is heard.
Cry Baby wasn't necessarily a baby theme but I understand what they're saying. So like, Cry Baby is definitely a remaining character throughout all of my albums.
I have a few songs that I'm figuring out and writing. I'm still figuring out the whole concept and how it's gonna connect to Cry Baby, but I have some ideas, yes.
My parents were super strict, so I didn't have a lot of freedom to hang out at parties or anything like that. I didn't get invited, and I didn't have many friends.
When I was younger I used to be really into photography, and I still am, I just don't really get to do it besides taking my own artists photos and stuff like that.
"Dollhouse" was definitely inspired by the whole Edward Scissorhands vibe where all of the houses are perfect, but inside each home there are very messed up families.
So like what I want to do is connect all of my albums and make it tell a bigger kind of story. So the first album is very focused on her family life and her love life.
I go with what I like and I generally just cling to things that are pastel and remind me of being a little kid. It's just what it is right now, but I go through phases.
And still as an adult like I do as well, you know what I mean like I literally just cried in the first interview that I had today. Like, I'm just a very emotional human.
Cry Baby is just a character in this world that I'm trying to create, and the music videos are really important to me, and I've fought to obviously get all of them approved.
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.
I always try, when I'm singing songs, to interpret them the way that I would've arranged them. I think about the melody first, and then I pull out my guitar and start singing it.
On the show [the Voice] I obviously wasn't allowed [singing my own original music], because it's not that type of show. I think it's really cool that I get to do my own thing now.
I believe everyone should be equal, and we should all love and support each other and express ourselves the way we want to express ourselves and be whoever we want. That's my motto.
It's just interesting how people relate my success when I would like to think that I worked my ass off for a reason and that it's about the music and not because I was on a TV show.
I think that any female who gets asked if she's a feminist... it's silly... it's so interesting when people ask females if they're a feminist. Of course every female wants to be equal!
I wanted to play my original music, but it was really hard because a lot of the people who would come out to the shows found out about me through 'The Voice' and wanted to hear covers.
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.