“I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.”
Diet“Gay marriage is going to happen. It must.”
Marriage“I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.”
Diet“I hope when I'm dead I'll be considered an icon, though.”
Hope“I'm definitely a Polaroid camera girl. For me, what I'm really excited about is bringing back the artistry and the nature of Polaroid.”
Nature“I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while.”
Family“I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.”
Hope“Pop music will never be low brow.”
Music“Where I come from it was really unheard of to be at a party and someone says, 'What kind of music do you make?', and you say, 'Pop music.' You may as well have 'I'm not cool' stamped on your forehead.”
Cool“My father opened a restaurant. It's so amazing... it's so freaking delicious, but I'm telling you I gain five pounds every time I go in there.”
Amazing“So there's nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who's cool hates - and then making it cool.”
Cool“Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all.”
Music“I write music every day.”
Music“I do yoga, I do Bikram and I run, and I eat really healthy.”
Fitness“Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.”
Art“I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.”
Family“When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl.”
Morning“I'm doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.”
Cool“What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.”
Art“I don't care about money.”
Money“I want my fans to love themselves. It's almost like I want to hypnotize them so when they hear my music they love themselves instantly.”
Music“I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.”
Future