"Words are more powerful than some noises. Noises won't last long. Lyrics are so important, and people don't realise that."

"I think everybody deserves an equal amount of appreciation whether how old they are, but I mean, I'm cool with the praise. I'm good."

"I grew up on the Beatles; I love Linkin Park and Green Day. I heard hip-hop for the first time at 11 and realized what I was missing."

"I'm gonna make what I want to make, and other people are gonna like what they're gonna like. It doesn't really matter."

"People have so much going on in their heads. I'm like, If you could write a song, you'd feel so much better!"

"If I'm in a bad mood, or if I'm uncomfortable, it's probably what I'm wearing that's making me feel that way."

"My whole life, I've sung and listened to music, and since the beginning, I've had iTunes and used Apple Music for streaming."

"I feel like I might be a designer or stylist - or a director because I have always been super interested in cameras and editing."

"I don't really get nervous that much, or if I do, only I know. It's all inside me. I am good at hiding everything."

"Pretty much my whole life, I've been a performer and have loved singing and writing songs in my room for my own ears."

"If I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I'll die someday, and one day, they will too."

"I think it's really cool when artists have song titles or album names that are a really conversational sentence."

"You can write a song about being in love with someone, but you don't have to be in love with anyone."

"I've always been a singer. I never really decided I was gonna be a singer. It just kind of - I just sung a lot."

"We uploaded 'Ocean Eyes' to SoundCloud, and it started getting a lot of plays pretty much immediately."

"What inspires me about rap is that it's written in an almost poetic way. I just think it's so cool."

"Pirate was going to be my middle name, but then my uncle had a problem with it because pirates are bad."

"I really like hip-hop and rap; that's my main influence. I really wanna be more of a hip-hop artist."

"I used to make little movies when I was younger. I'd make my friends be in them and then edit them."

"It's really fun to put yourself into a character - into shoes you wouldn't normally be in."

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

"When I do have free time, I spend it with friends, or I spend it at home writing or making something."

"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 don't think of them as on a lower level than me. I don't think I'm anything but equal to all of them. So yeah, they're basically all of my siblings."

"I play piano and ukulele, and I taught myself those things just because I wanted to play them."

"There are alway going to be bad things. But you can write it down and make a song out of it."

"I had a period in my life where I decided that I would never be bored again and that, if I had any free time at all, I would make plans, and I would always be doing things. It actually was great for a year or so, but then I lost all of my friends."

"I have so many designs and video ideas and lyrics in my head, so I always try to be productive."

"In real life, I'm a really smiley person. I smile when I talk and I laugh."

"I always wanted to be a Vine star. I wasn't, thank God."

"I've always liked being busy. If I have nothing to do for a week, it just makes me mad."

"Aside from singing, I'm also a dancer. I've been dancing since I was 8."

"Sexism is everywhere, bro. I don't know if it's ever not somewhere."

"Sexism is everywhere, bro. I don't know if it's ever not somewhere."

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

"It's rare for anyone to value the opinions of a teenage girl."

"When I was four, I wrote a song about falling into a black hole."

"I've always done whatever I want and always been exactly who I am."

"I like to be in control of how I look and how I feel and how I act."

"I've been in the Los Angeles Children's Chorus since I was 8."

"I always wear the kind of stuff that makes you overheat and die."

"Clothing & fashion are kind of my security blanket, almost."

"I love people talking about me; I love anybody just looking at me."

"Lyrics are so important, but they're really underrated."

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

"It's really fun to be on stage in front of people."

"I really wanted to be a model when I was little. I loved photography, and I loved being on camera. But I was short and chubby, so I couldn't. Anyway, being an artist is way more interesting than just being a model because it's about you and what you want to be. You're not being treated like a clothes hanger."

"I'm a really particular person. I want it my way."

"I don't think a song should be put in a category."

"I never thought a career as a musician was possible."

"When I write, I try to become different characters."