I like writing about places, about people and environments. When I create a world, it lets me go in and define the details of that world.

To be fair, I did come out of nowhere. 'Ghost' was the first song I ever did in a studio, my first time ever cutting a professional vocal.

I was a fan of One Direction when I was 16, but I was also a fan of Bring Me The Horizon and hardcore bands.

Everything that I hate about myself goes away when I was onstage.

My mom has every issue of 'Billboard' I've ever been in.

If I go out there and am myself, and I do what makes me comfortable and what I think is true to my artistry, and they don't like it, then that's fine. I walk off stage, and I know there's nothing there's nothing I could have done differently.

People around me like me the best when I'm depressed because I'm a bit more passive.

In one week, I went from being a girl who owed a guy thousands of dollars - my manager Anthony was paying for my outfits, paying for my food; I was sleeping in his parents' basement - to taking meetings with every major label in America. The next morning, I had a record deal and wrote him a cheque to pay back all that money.

I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.

I put so much of myself out there and make myself so accessible that sometimes I fear I make myself too accessible.

My first album was called 'Badlands,' and it's something that I think I'm most proud of having done in my life.

I want to be treated like a musician.

Being a musician, people ask you a lot about what musicians inspire you, and there's plenty of musicians that I love and respect, but I think that I'm the most inspired by cinema.

Every 16-year-old person has a love for pop in them because pop is popular.

I want any kid who listens to my music to see that I am confident with all elements of my personality that I can't change.

You can expect nothing in being a musician, and you have to be just very thankful every time it goes positively for you.

At the end of the day, every decision I make about my music is about creating a collective.

So many people are concerned with being the perfect 'something.' Whether it's the perfect singer, the perfect sexy girl, or the perfect feminist. I don't want to be the perfect anything.

Every song I write is autobiographical and is about people, and that's one of the things that gets complicated. You have to decide where's your place as a songwriter.

I think, growing up in a small town - I grew up in a lot of different places. I grew up in a city environment, a more suburban environment, a more rural environment. That's the beauty of New Jersey is you get a lot of different types of living.

I was a weirdo. I think I wanted to be liked, but I didn't have the attention or bother to actually make an effort to be. I also think I had a different perception of what I needed to do to be liked.

I hate feeling like a prisoner. I show up somewhere, and I can't explore the city because there's, like, 6,000 to 10,000 people on the lookout for me.

Most artists, their 60th show was in front of no one. My first show was in front of 1,200 people.

I didn't even realize I was writing songs - I thought I was just being witty and sarcastic.