If my life is a movie - in the movie, there's always the bad part. There's also the parts where you're down and out, and there are parts where everything's amazing.

Every time I go out to do shows, it just becomes a little bit more real and a little bit more full, so I'm excited just to see it hit its next level.

No matter where you are, what point in your life you're at, it's not the end.

I don't like to see people using their power over others, trying to hurt people who are weak or poor or people with darker skin or anyone who doesn't have as much privilege. It makes me so angry. I want to fight for people. I want to be able to make some kind of difference in the world.

I've done my own videos, I do my own styling, so I feel like I've just always been a visual artist... I was one of those kids who wanted to make my own clothes and take pictures of everything. Everything inspired me, and everything felt like art around me.

I feel like fashion is about being innovative and being able to turn something into something else, making it cool, and making it your own.

I grew up being very different and being ready to fight people. I wanted to stand up for myself, and I wanted to not let anyone think they know me based on appearances, so I was always just fighting back with people.

I'm a big Gorillaz fan.

It's difficult as an artist sometimes. There's a lot of pressure when it's your first album. You want to make something that's meaningful and timeless, not something that's trendy.

When I was little, I went through a lot of phases, like any girl.

It's really natural for me to write bilingually.

I never really wanted to be a singer. I always preferred to be behind the camera.

I made music just for myself.

I wasn't into social media at all, but when I decided I was going to put out my own music, I said, 'Okay, I'm just going to post it.' And that's when it started its rounds on the Internet, and people started to take an interest in me.

California feels like Colombia but with less threats. I don't have to be constantly looking over my shoulder.

Colombian culture has had a huge influence on me and taught me a different way of looking at things - I was always different from the people I went to school with, and I learned to embrace that.

I used to love to look at cover art for vinyls.

A lot of people don't give Virginia credit. Pharrell, Missy Elliott - a lot of people come from here.

I think everybody needs to be more empathetic.

When I got my MacBook, I started playing around with Garageband a lot. It was just a creative outlet. I put everything into it. I would skip all my classes just to be making my songs. Stuff like that made me feel good.

As a musician, you are all the music that you absorb into your mind; that just subconsciously connects.

I just like stuff that's raw, itself, real and genuine. I think that's the way art should be. That's the kind of stuff that people can connect to more.

I just know what I want for myself.

When you're an artist, you're working, literally, for the sole purpose of art, and when people discredit you, it's probably the most disrespectful thing you can do.

There's no particular method or course of action that I take in order to decide who I'm going to work with besides feeling complete and total respect and admiration for that artist.

I started making music by myself and figuring all of that on my own.

I don't really use any face products anymore because they make me break out. I like natural remedies. I usually put honey on my face. Sometimes, I put sugar in it so it's an exfoliant, too. I add raw coconut oil, which is good as a face wash and a moisturizer.

Sometimes I leave mayonnaise on the ends of my hair for a few hours while I'm writing; it's a really good moisturizer.

If you really want to get over someone or something in your life, I suggest you throw on some Ivy Queen. She will have you feeling extra bossy.

Selena is a classic and timeless singer, and she really doesn't need an introduction. Her music is always good for the soul.

I've always been very insecure and had a lot of self-doubt growing up. That was partially because of how I was raised.

It's easy to just write about love, because everyone can relate, but I like variety.

I always felt you could age with style and grace, or you could age in denial and hold on to issues and never push through.

I just believe in standing up for people and against discrimination. I consider myself an advocate for human rights.

Now I know Hindi, and I can read and write Hindi, but the problem is that I can't improvise when I am acting because I think in English, so I have to translate my thinking from English to Hindi, and therefore, I speak slowly.

As a teenager, I was very awkward in my skin. I was never in the cool gang. I had braces and was quite the geek as well as a tomboy.

A director's job is like parenting. You have to look after your actors like children, pay attention to each of their different abilities.

'Jia Aur Jia' is like my first proper fun, masti Bollywood film. I have a full-on dance number.

I think the glamour industry, all over the world, does portray a version that is 'Photoshopped' - a picture that is not very realistic.

There's nothing like performing for a live audience.

I, for one, personally like rom-coms, silly rom-coms, but at the same time, I also want to watch a documentary or an award-winning drama.

There is always going to be depth and layers to people and that's what interests me in a character: when there is some problem to overcome, when there is a complication to understand in a person.

Theatre is my first love; I would not have done it if I didn't love it and certainly not for the money - you really have to believe in it.

I don't even mind playing a bimbo or a silly girl, as long as it isn't stereotyped and there's a reason for that character to be part of the story.

I consider myself as a human being with lots of ups and downs and learning from a lot of failures before I can succeed.

Adults should be intelligent enough to know what they want - if you don't like it, then don't consume it. A rating system for kids and teens is more important. Especially for violent shows.

If you can't go for a honeymoon, steal a weekend and go somewhere. Anurag and I do it quite often. We switch off our phones and go for a small weekend getaway.

What makes us really human is it's in the presence of death that we start valuing life.

Everybody should read 'Slaughterhouse-Five' by Kurt Vonnegut. This book is about the hypocrisy of war, told in satire, and is hard-hitting and truthful.

In your 20s, you are worried about body issues, your weight, how you are dressed. In your 30s, you're like, 'Oh my God, I am getting old. I am going to enjoy everything.'