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

“I'm a wanderessI'm a one night standDon't belong to no cityDon't belong to no man(Note: These lyrics were inspired by Roman Payne's quote from his novel "The Wanderess".)”

“I learned how quickly I could go from having never met someone to having the world think I'm dating them.”

“I had a crazy life for a teenager. I lived in New Jersey, but I'd go to Vermont for three weeks, join a commune, take pictures with the guy I was dating, come back home, and post photos.”

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

“You numb yourself so you're not terrified when you're on TV at 7 o'clock in the morning with Justin Bieber, who you just met a couple of days before, having to perform in front of millions of people.”

“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 would love to write a screenplay for 'Badlands' one day. I don't think I could ever have the patience to do it I don't even have the patience to write songs. I write some of the shortest songs ever because I don't have the patience. ”

“It's hard because I think I fall into this in-between space where there's something that's innately feminine about me, and there's also something that's kind of androgynous. I carry myself somewhere in between, and I think my music lends itself to that as well.”

“The cool thing about my show and me is that I'm a writer, and I'm a writer first if I don't have music.”

“✵ When I first met you there was a garden growing from a black hole in my mind. ✵”