They sell you this present of rainbows and butterflies, and as a 16-year-old, that's what I bought. It's why I did 'X Factor' and why I ended up in a group. But then you're working so hard, so young.

There's this notion that artists are supposed to be dumb and frivolous. I completely disagree with that.

That messed me up, growing up in the public eye when I was a teenager. That's when everyone is trying to find themselves.

We definitely work hard, and we want to keep our fans engaged... we want to give them new music.

A lot of people talk, but they don't say anything. And people listen, and they don't absorb anything of substance.

I want to give the girls who admire us everything I can. I don't want to just fill them with selfies and crap. That's not what I'm about. I'm about, 'Be aware of the world and that you're not the only one in it.'

I'm so proud of my girl Kehlani. She and SZA are killing it.

I love every time that I get to be on a stage with Halsey. She's so incredible.

I have a lot of people in my life who support me.

We like that when girls look at us, they don't see perfect little blond-haired, blue-eyed Barbie dolls.

I feel like, especially being around other girls, it's really easy to start picking yourself apart and being like, 'Wow, she looks better than me.'

Some of our songs are empowering, but I feel like more so than our music, it's who we are. We're four women who are completely different ethnicities, completely different body types, completely different walks of life and opinions.

We have an energy about us that's so unique and so intense, and it's because of how much power we have in us as individuals, being confident, harnessing that power, and wanting to share that with other women.

It's truly disheartening to me to see so many beautiful women who have no idea what their potential is.

Amandla Stenberg is so powerful in her energy and what she speaks about and what she projects. I think it's incredible.

If you connect with an artist because of what they make as a body of work, you feel like they're your friend. You feel like you're on the journey of connection with them because they see the world the same way you do. That's so powerful, and if you use that, you can genuinely change minds.

I feel like art has been at the center of change since the beginning of time.

I think that until we're 21, human beings don't get to know themselves very much.

As an artist, I don't care about where we are in the charts and all that. The important thing to me is to connect with a creative project.

I really, genuinely don't look at my schedule too often, because when I do, I get a little overwhelmed by how much is going on.

Every time somebody asks me, 'Oh, when you mix your own music, what are you going to make?' And I don't know.

I just don't feel limited by genre.

We all allow each other to explore our individual things that make us happy, and so we're just being supportive of each other and making sure we focus on Fifth Harmony, and what's important to the group is important to all five of us.

When we auditioned for 'The X Factor,' we were five individuals going into the show. That obviously means we are five solo artists in our beings, so we have our own creative ideas, of what sounds the best music-wise, because we are all artists.