Having a mom as a hairdresser was really awesome: I was always her test dummy. I've had every style, every color you could imagine.

Stay true to who you are, even though that sounds cliché. It's something that's important - doing what feels right for you.

I think patience is the best thing to try to embrace.

With different scenarios and different places, I think it's easier for me to get inspired; I'm seeing different things.

I feel people are seeing me as a true artist rather than a singer, or an entertainer, or a girl who just makes songs.

If I'm experiencing a different thing every day and seeing a new environment every day, it can create a different mood or different feeling.

The fact that people are embracing me so well as a new artist and being taken so seriously is something I'm really surprised by.

I feel New York is too crazy for me, especially when you go to Times Square.

I want everything, no matter what concept or genre, to feel real, because it is real. I want to keep making real music, I hope people remember me for that, that's a good thing to be remembered for.

It's hard to be taken seriously if you're a young, female artist making pop music; you never know how people are going to react.

YouTube was a way for people to hear me and for me to say, "Hey, I can sing this song, I'm not in front of you yet because I'm too shy, but here's how I sound for now."

But even a medicine man like myself has to have some money, because you force me to live in your make-believe world where I can't get along without it.

The greatest artist and web-designer ever is indeed a spider!

I believe that opportunity looks a lot like hard work.

Why does a suppurating lung give so little warning and a sore on the finger so much?

[Saddam] built up a massive war machine while neglecting the basic needs of his own people.

She [Kim Kardashian] was always my muse, now she's become other designers' muses.

I have a lot of hang-ups in life with men. I'm not very trusting.

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

Music is like my security blanket. The first medium that I learned was music.