I'm not the Queen. I'm not a huge superstar; I don't get paparazzi around me.

I don't think what I look like is relevant.

Life is all about the friendship and the love and the music. It sounds silly, but it is. I want to have that experience as much as I can as an adult, not as a kid doing something that people are telling her she has to do. If anyone gets in my way, I'm going to get them out of my way.

If I have one success in my relationship history, it's with the people who listen to my music. I think that they'll be there with me forever, and I'll be there with them forever. And I'm totally satisfied with that.

There were songs I would write about breaking up with somebody before I broke up with them, months and months before I broke up with them.

I don't go on lunch dates with friends. I hear about people having dinner parties, but I never do that. I'm not really human.

When I was a kid - 10, 11, 12, 13 - the thing I wanted most in the world was a best friend. I wanted to be important to people; to have people that understood me. I wanted to just be close to somebody.

Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now.

You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?

I'm a really good parent to myself sometimes, and I do things that make me learn and grow.

In a sense it's a lot crazier when you're on the road and it's a lot less stable, but it's actually really healthy for me because it keeps me from isolating, which I tend to do a lot.

In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.

Men are my bread and butter. It's what I live for! I have no shame about that.

You can live your whole life in your brain and not experience what's around you. You go crazy that way.

I also just accept that I might never want to write a song again.

The only reason that it takes me seven years to do stuff is because I just don't really have a plan.

Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.

But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.

I wasn't very ambitious as a child. I'm still not.

I can't remember writing any of the songs that I've written.

And if I'm being honest, I don't think I have an ex-boyfriend who would have something mean to say about me.

No, I've never wanted kids. But I do read about parenting a lot.

You know, I've always thought that it would be really funny if somebody made a romantic comedy where absolutely everything went well from beginning to end.

The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.