I'm sporty, active, bubbly, I like to make people laugh... I'm the jokester. But I'm also very traditional.

I am a person who dresses to be comfortable; I did not allow the Grammy Awards name and won't allow the title to stop me from doing that.

We kind of grew up in an environment that enabled us to be ourselves.

I have 9 tattoos of my own.

I'm typically pretty terrified to sing in front of people.

I want to be the biggest thing that's out because I'm different from everybody. I don't sound like nobody.

There was no one in particular I really tried to copy.

I feel like, you know, some people like to wear colorful stuff. Some people like to be blacked down, and some people just want to be colorful. Some people just have weird problems. I'm never going to...

I know what my sound is. I'm just trying to get it out there how I can explain it. I'm not trying to write or put out some music that doesn't represent me.

You are your main news platform, so no publication has as much power as you do about posting about yourself.

Initially, I started writing music because I wanted to express my thoughts and get what was going on in my head out to the world.

When the glam metal thing of the late '80s became too glammy, then instead of having two bottles of hairspray in your hair, it became better not to wash your hair at all. To me it's all trend stuff. I...

I'm crazy, but I'm serious. I'm sentimental, but I'm, like, really hard, too. I just want people to understand that I have all these sides inside me.

Sometimes I think I still dress like a 13-year-old boy. It's not that I don't like feminine clothing: I just like a blend because it reflects who I am.

I am living against all predictions. The doctors say I am a sort of witch.

Clothes should be as interesting on the inside as on the outside. Even if you enjoy it totally alone, it's important.

I think clothing is transformative. When you put something really beautiful on, you feel something. In so many ways, we're always playing a form of dress-up - it's just a grown-up, much chicer version...

My lashes are so long that if I don't curl them, I'm blind.

It's always been hard trying to find the right pieces that go together, but it's always been something that interests me - finding new ways to be fashionable and cute but still being modest.

I am not a person that is particularly tethered to fashion, which I think is obvious to anyone who's seen me.

I really talk like how you hear me rap! I really talk like that.

I've been messing around in the studio the last couple of years. But I don't want to worry about being taken seriously as a singer. It just really feels good to do it.

It's not an act. I love it. It's totally original. People go, 'What's going on with this guy? Why does he sound so weird? What is going on in his brain. I don't know. Just one day I suddenly woke up...

I just play the music that I'm gonna play and don't really worry about how people perceive it.

I'm not a politician, I'm not an ideologue, I'm not an organizer anymore. I'm a human being sharing ideas, and those ideas have to feel fresh and from my heart and my head, and I have to feel it. You...

I'm a little insane, and I'm going to be a little different. But hopefully, somewhere in there, in that creative arena, something will emerge that is new and different and unique.

People used to come knocking on my door saying, 'Your trouble is that you're a sex symbol who doesn't do enough sexy things.' I'd say to myself, 'You think that if you pressure me I'll fold.' But if I...

People in general are used to seeing me as the naughty girl because that's what they've always cast me as.

I never want to be the woman that's telling other women what to do.

Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.