Everyone's just a freak, but some people are trying to hide it and some people embrace it.
Live in the moment. Feel everything you want to feel. And maybe have a couple of drinks if you're nervous, I guess.
I really don’t care what people think.
I want to have tampons as merch that say ‘Periods are punk.'
Every time I make another record and every time I get a year older, I become more and more confident in who I am and more in tune with what I want as a person. I think it's the same for anyone in any walk of life. You just grow with experience and become more confident in exploring new things.
A great song can make you cry and transport you to another dimension.
I have a dark side. I think everyone does.
I don't want to be a pop star. I want to be a nursery-rhyme star!
I see music in colours. I love music that's black, pink, purple or red - but I hate music that's green, yellow or brown.
I want to create an experience with my music.
I started writing my own things when I was about 8. I used to try to bully my friends into imitating the Spice Girls on the playground. Then I realized, Oh god, my career's going nowhere, so I looked in the Yellow Pages and phoned up the first cheap studio that I found and started recording.
A good song can make you smile, or it can make you dance or laugh or remind you of a moment.
For me, romance is only 'true' when there are two sides to it. I think to have true romance you have to have the moments where you feel alone and you're crying and you feel like your heart's about to break... as well as the moments where you're floating through this orgasmic dream state.
To be honest I'd just love to keep writing hits for other people... That's kind of my secret dream.
I turned 25. And I don't feel like... whatever, age is just a number. I still feel very young and excited about life and everything. For the first time ever I began to take a look at life and really value it, and realize that there are so many things that I want to do; travel, I want to see the world. I realized that I want to take more time for myself and take more time to see the world and spend time with friends. That sounds so basic but I never really realized that before.
When I first started, I wasn't really aware of anything in the industry or aware of who I really was. I just put my music out there and tried to get as many people to hear it as possible.
I think true romance is dry schizophrenic... but life would be so boring without true love, so I guess you just roll with it.
I know some people are like "I'm depressed and I'm a struggling artist" and that really works for some people, but that doesn't work for me. I have to be really happy, even when I'm writing my depressing songs; I have to come through that stage before I can write. I have to be in a good place. I'm a positive person.
I just want people to feel the emotion that's in the record. For me it's very raw and beautiful, I guess it's kind of like a diary for me. I'd love for people to be able to listen to it and it make them dance and cry and the same time.
[My mom] worries about me going and taking drugs, whereas my dad advises me on what drugs to take and what ones not to take. So, they're very different.
I can't stand to hear my own voice. If one of my songs comes on in a café, I'll run out right away and come back with the police.
I like Lady Gaga's music and I think her fashion is great, but I saw her on a chat show and I wanted to punch her in the face.
I like the whole laid-back rapping. I wish I could rap! I wish I could wrap like Azealia Banks or Lil Wayne or someone like that.
I've never been to New Zealand actually. All I know is that there's a lot of greenery there. I'd love to come and play a show there sometime soon for sure!
I'm someone who admires artists like Madonna and David Bowie, who really change their sound drastically between each record.
