The last thing I want to do is be complacent.

I think couldn't not make a song called 'Wild Boy' and not be a wild boy.

Puff is more of a mentor rather than someone who's directly involved in my movement or helping me put my album together. It's not like me and him party together. He's definitely more of, like, a mentor.

Everything I stood for, forever, since the beginning of time, has been about seeing people as humans. Not as man, woman, white, Hispanic, any of that stuff.

You can make something out of nothing. I proved that with my career, making it out of the city that I'm from.

Being a rock star rocks.

I don't feel fear anymore, in any form.

Honestly, I look in the mirror, and I'm not the greatest looking kid.

There is no VIP. We're all the same.

Everything is my fault when you're me. I don't know why.

I'm an anarchist. I have it tattooed on my stomach.

I actually have an Avenged Sevenfold tattoo on my body.

Everyone in our clique rocks a black bandana with the print 'EST 19XX' on them 24/7. As the underdog, you are expected to lose or give up and 'wave the white towel,' so that is why our flag is black. We never give up - never surrender. EST means 'Everyone Stands Together.' The '19XX' is to represent any age.

You have to work hard as a woman for people to take you seriously.

Young women look at me and think, 'She's really confident. She has always had it figured out,' but actually, I really, really haven't. That has come over time as I became a young woman.

I'm independent; I live by myself.

Relationships with cities are similar to relationships with people: being away from both can really make you appreciate what you have.

When it's my show, I know that everybody is there to see me - but I like a challenge, and I like the fact that at festivals not everybody is there to see me, but I have the chance to convert people.

I'm just trying to be myself and encourage other young women to be themselves.

That's why I love music - because I'm such a control freak, and it's the only thing that I can't really control.

I'm really good at the '90s slow jams. I've got that down. But I love to dance, so why wouldn't I make something I could dance to?

I want people to really care when I release an album.

It sounds really cheesy, but as a woman, I feel like I sort of found myself.

I wouldn't be who I am if my parents hadn't been musicians.