- I've always done whatever I want and always been exactly who I am.
- 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.
- 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.
- Me and my brother get along super well. We're, like, best friends. So we'll stay up until, like, five just talking because we get along and, you know, it's cool. And he respects my opinions, and I respect his, even if we don't have the same opinions, but a lot of the time we do.
- In real life, I'm a really smiley person. I smile when I talk and I laugh.
- 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.
- It's rare for anyone to value the opinions of a teenage girl.
- People are terrified of me, and I want them to be.
- Words are more powerful than some noises. Noises won't last long. Lyrics are so important, and people don't realize that.
- There are always going to be bad things. But you can write it down and make a song out of it.
- 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.
- If it's good music, it's good music.
- I'm a really particular person. I want it my way.
- 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 work with my brother Finneas, and he produces all of my music in his little bedroom in our house. We actually tried renting out a studio for a month when we were producing 'Don't Smile at Me,' but it was really hard there, and we ended up just doing it at home anyway.
- Lyrics are so important, but they're really underrated.
- I like to be in control of how I look and how I feel and how I act.
- I've always liked being busy. If I have nothing to do for a week, it just makes me mad.
- It's really fun to put yourself into a character - into shoes you wouldn't normally be in.
- Clothing & fashion are kind of my security blanket, almost.
- 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 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 always wear the kind of stuff that makes you overheat and die.
- 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.
- If I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I'll die someday, and one day, they will too.
- 'Bellyache' is totally fictional. I like writing about things that aren't real. The song is about not trusting anyone and then putting trust in yourself and realizing that you don't know what you are doing, either. Or realizing that things you do with a group of people that you think are cool in the moment are ultimately all on you.
- I felt like, for so many years - and I still even feel it - as a girl, you can't really expect to go on stage and dress like a boy and jump around and scream with the audience and mosh and stuff, and every time that happens, I feel really proud.
- Sexism is everywhere, bro. I don't know if it's ever not somewhere.
- I really like hip-hop and rap; that's my main influence. I really wanna be more of a hip-hop artist.
- 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 love movement. I love moshing.
- Nothing really scares me, to be honest.
- I play piano and ukulele, and I taught myself those things just because I wanted to play them.
- 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.
- When I write, I try to become different characters.
- Aside from singing, I'm also a dancer. I've been dancing since I was 8.
- I wrote my first song at 12 and remember someone asking, 'What were you going through at 12 that you could write about?' I get what you're saying, but 11, 12, 13 were the hardest years of my life. You learn everything. You learn how horrible things feel.
- 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 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 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've always been a singer. I never really decided I was gonna be a singer. It just kind of - I just sung a lot.
- Pretty much my whole life, I've been a performer and have loved singing and writing songs in my room for my own ears.
- I really love Linkin Park, and I loved Chester Bennington, and it is horrible what happened to him. I grew up listening to him because my dad would make these mixtapes with a lot of different artists - Linkin Park, Avril Lavigne, The Beatles, Sarah McLachlan, I just really loved Linkin Park, and their production is really sick.
- 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.
- You can write a song about being in love with someone, but you don't have to be in love with anyone.
- I always want to create and do things, or draw.
- When I was four, I wrote a song about falling into a black hole.
- I always wanted to be a Vine star. I wasn't, thank God.
- 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.
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