"In real life, I'm a really smiley person. I smile when I talk and I laugh."

"I always wanted to be a Vine star. I wasn't, thank God."

"I've always liked being busy. If I have nothing to do for a week, it just makes me mad."

"Aside from singing, I'm also a dancer. I've been dancing since I was 8."

"Sexism is everywhere, bro. I don't know if it's ever not somewhere."

"Sexism is everywhere, bro. I don't know if it's ever not somewhere."

"Smiling makes me feel weak and not in control and not powerful and small."

"It's rare for anyone to value the opinions of a teenage girl."

"When I was four, I wrote a song about falling into a black hole."

"I've always done whatever I want and always been exactly who I am."

"I like to be in control of how I look and how I feel and how I act."

"I've been in the Los Angeles Children's Chorus since I was 8."

"I always wear the kind of stuff that makes you overheat and die."

"Clothing & fashion are kind of my security blanket, almost."

"I love people talking about me; I love anybody just looking at me."

"Lyrics are so important, but they're really underrated."

"People are terrified of me, and I want them to be."

"It's really fun to be on stage in front of people."

"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'm a really particular person. I want it my way."

"I don't think a song should be put in a category."

"I never thought a career as a musician was possible."

"When I write, I try to become different characters."

"I always want to create and do things, or draw."

"If it's good music, it's good music."

"Writing music is just like writing a book."

"Nothing really scares me, to be honest."

"I love movement. I love moshing."

"I hate the idea of genres."

"I find a lot of inspiration through visuals. When I was 12, I saw Aurora's 'Runaway' music video. Something inside me clicked, like, 'That is what I want to do, no matter whether it goes anywhere or not.'"

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"I'm a really artistic person, and so, with the live stuff, there's a lot that I think is really cool. Beyonce and Rihanna have all these dancers. So with the live costumes and video costumes, I'd really like to have my vision. The way that I want people to dress is very specific. I love fashion."

"Being an artist doesn't just mean you have a song. That doesn't make you an artist. The word 'artist' means so many different things, and I feel like to be a real one, you really have to do it all. The people that I think of as artists - Tyler the Creator, Childish Gambino, Kanye West - are doing the most."

"I don't want people at my shows to come out and say, 'I just saw a cool show.' I want them to say, 'I had fun at the show.' I want it to be a collaborative thing and be part of the audience and have them be part of me. I try to interact with everyone there and have them be equal to me because they are."

"'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."