"I'm not going to say I'm cool, because I don't really feel that. I just don't care at all, and I guess that's what people think is cool."

"I don't know how to function without music. When I'm not making it, I'm listening to it. It gives me courage and takes care of my mind."

"I hate smiling. It makes me feel weak and powerless and small. I've always been like that; I don't smile in any pictures."

"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."

"Time is kind of an amazing thing because you can do so much with it. I think people underestimate time... I don't want to just sit on my phone for hours."

"I'm super self-critical, which I think is good, because then I get exactly what I want. I'm critical of other people, too - I try not to be, though."

"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."

"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!"

"Writing a song is so personal. You have to have trust in someone you're working with; otherwise, you're not gonna come out with something that's really you."

"I just really want to get music out and tour and go places I've never been, and just do more videos. I love photography and videography, and so I really want to direct videos when I can."

"I used to write random little stupid things when I was five, but then the first song I really wrote was one called 'Fingers Crossed,' which is on SoundCloud."

"I'm pretty sure I don't have any songs that are about how much I love someone. They're all either about, like, 'I hate you,' or 'You make me hate me.'"

"If you write in the same way over and over again, like, in the same place with the same techniques and with the same people, you're sort of writing the same song over and over again."

"All of the Vines that were acted & setup & had nice cameras, those weren't the good Vines. The good Vines were, like, a random little kid in the middle of a forest, like, yelling."

"I go through a lot of depression, and I know other people do, too, but I have an outlet that so many people don't. If you have that inside of you and can't get it out, what do you do?"

"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."

"I listen to music all day every day. I can't not listen to music. It's kind of scary how much I listen to music, but it's what I love, and it's all I care about, so I'm good with it."

"I don't see myself as a pop artist. Like, when you hear 'pop,' you're like, 'Oh, bubblegum, jumpy little girly stuff,' and I feel like, 'Uh-uh. That's not me.'"

"I love to watch videos, and I've always liked to film and take pictures. I have an eye for really weird things that nobody thinks about. I used to make little movies about myself and then edit them on iMovie."

"My brother had written 'Ocean Eyes,' and we recorded it, basing all of the production around contemporary and lyrical dance. I think of most songs that way - if you can't dance to a song, it's not a song."

"In the public eye, girls and women with strong perspectives are hated. If you're a girl with an opinion, people just hate you. There are still people who are afraid of successful women, and that's so lame."

"As the tree is bent, so it will grow."

"I am who I am: an Irish Catholic kid, working class from Long Island. And I made it big."

"That's my advice to all homosexuals, whether they're in the Boy Scouts, or in the Army or in high school: Shut up, don't tell anybody what you do, your life will be a lot easier."