In terms of style, I'm really inspired by Foxy Brown and Naomi Campbell.

Everyone's a taste-maker.

It all started with social media, building a fan base via Tumblr and YouTube, doing covers, and releasing a project with original music. Labels started to peel interest then. It was around the same time I was applying for college.

Music says the things that people don't say or are afraid to say, and that's the best part about it for me.

Everyone that's come into my life, everything that has happened, has been a part of the plan. It's not even about being in the industry or becoming more popular; it's just about growing and outgrowing some people.

I like L.A., but I'm definitely a Brooklyn girl; I'm a city girl. I need the cars honking. I need the bright lights. I need people yelling in the middle of the night screaming at each other. I need all of that.

When I first started wearing blue lipstick, it was a MAC gloss that they had. Everyone was making fun of me, and I was like, 'Watch - this is going to be cool one day.'

One time I tried bangs, and people just weren't feeling it at all, but it's my hair. It's my unicorn mane, and it's definitely very important to me. It's also my body, and so I don't really care about other people's opinion of it.

My mom is an entertainment attorney, and she brought me to a BMI panel for people who were interested in becoming artists. While I was there, her friends kept peer pressuring me to go and sing in front of everyone because I was a very, very shy girl.

Before I go to bed, I twist my hair so it doesn't get knotted by morning and cover it with a silk scarf so it stays moisturized. In addition, I tend to wash my hair around once a week or every two weeks, depending on what I'm doing with it.

When you're arguing with a fool, you're the fool for even going back and forth.

I would describe my style as sexy, cosy, chic street-wear.

My hair is purple, and unicorns mean a lot to me. They're unique, rare, majestic, and beautiful, and I think those are some things that I embody. I wasn't always confident, and so once I gained my confidence, I was like, 'I'm a unicorn, and I don't care what anybody says.' My fans are unicorns, too. I like to call them my 'unicorn nation.'

I shift between Instagram, Twitter, and Snapchat probably 250 times a day, which probably isn't healthy, but I'm unfortunately addicted.

I want to build up the most hype around my album. I wouldn't just throw it away.

You got to learn when to be the bigger person, especially in the entertainment business.

I'm a Virgo, so I'm a super hard lover. I fall in love so quickly!

I'm a purple girl!

As a young adult, we all go through things now on social media. It's a part of our everyday lives.

My hair is always going to be purple; that's kind of my thing. It doesn't matter what length I make it, as long as it's purple.

On the real, because you're dyeing your hair so much, it gets really damaged, so you just want to use a lot of products that help hydrate it and keep it nice and keep it moisturized. It gets really, really dry.

I think the way I dress says I'm young and I'm living life.

I'm trying different things, and I'm comfortable with who I am and not afraid of showing my confidence through my style.

I want to be a legend.

Fashion has always been an important part of my life.

I use Manic Panic to dye my hair. Sometimes I do it myself.

I'm pretty sure we've all had a situation where a certain ex or person finds their way back in your life. I've realized that it's not about dwelling over it and overthinking.

I always support my friends.

As artists, we have the luxury of experimenting with extra crazy things, but I feel like my aesthetic is very street-style and high-low.

When I'm in L.A., I kind of go crazy in the middle of the night when it's, like, completely quiet.

New York has definitely turned into more of, like, a hipster place.

I thought that the music industry was going to be pretty easy - getting features and stuff - and everyone was going to be nice. But I realized that it's really, really hard to get features.

It takes a lot for you to find your confidence, but you shouldn't let someone else be the person to find it for you.

You want to accomplish everything; there's no limits to what you want to do. You want to do movies. You want to do modeling. You want to be an entrepreneur - you want to enter every aspect of the entertainment business.

I'm obsessed with Minnie Riperton's voice: it's like a smooth river of ice cold strawberry milk.

We all feel like we're alone, but as artists, we get to see firsthand from our fans that we're not. Hearing them scream the words to your songs is the most amazing feeling.

I get nervous every single time. It doesn't matter if there're five people or five thousand. What I have noticed is that the more people there are, the less nervous I am. It's way harder to impress five people.

The first three years my hair was purple, I still was trying to convince myself that I hated the color purple.

I just want to make great music. There's not a genre that I would categorize it as, but I want it to be true and authentic.

I'm hoping that people will love the music, but at the same time, the most important thing to me is that I love the music.

When I was 16, I started to spend a lot of time in Soho and downtown New York and noticed everyone's style and the eclectic things people would wear. And that's when I started to experiment with things like my lipstick and mixing different kinds of pieces and, of course, my hair color.

One thing that I must do with every wash is deep condition. I have this theory in my head that it will make my hair really healthy, especially since I'm always keeping it in different styles.

Being a brown girl, I like to wear colors that are similar to my skin tone, so I wear a lot of dark colors - never anything that's too bright.

For the most part, I'm very into sweatpants and cute tops from streetwear brands like Supreme and Palace for a '90s tomboy vibe.

The day I do get my Roc Nation chain is going to be so much more valuable than if they gave it to me the day I signed. You have to earn it.

That's where people go wrong in the music industry: they get all these fancy things and think that they deserve them, but they really haven't done anything to earn them yet.

Sometimes, people have issues, and you just wish sometimes that it could be good.

R&B was really prominent in the '90s, and we can all admit that it kind of fell off. But my generation is more in touch with our emotions - we're not afraid to show them. We're bringing that decade back.

I'm more conscious about who I let into my heart, and I'm singing about it.

There's always competition in the world, but you don't have to be enemies. You can empower each other.