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.

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.

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."

The fact that I'm getting appreciated and praised alone is a crazy moment because I never thought it would happen.

You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth.

Faithless is unbelieving heart.

I was crying because I had broken my best friend's heart.

For it is in giving that we receive.

I think that fashion is very important for me and I think that it's a wonderful means of self-expression.

Science is a way of thinking that helps you not to fool yourself.

Don't depend on recent or current figures to forecast future prices; remember that many others knew them before you did

With my size and speed, my ability to make moves and great vision, I'm sometimes feel like it's an unfair advantage over the defense.

Today I will be the master of my emotions.

The time spent identifying your base of contacts is an investment in your success and the success of others with whom you share your resources.