I was always told that music isn't a 'realistic' path to take, and like a normal human being, I doubted myself over and over because I was afraid of failure.

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."

at the center of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power.

I am the creator of my reality

Hope was a dangerous emotion that more often than not led men into foolishness and peril, made them risk their lives and lose their wives and part with fortunes that they never recovered.

When we begin to experience our life as the miraculous expression of divinity - not occasionally, but all the time - then we will know the true meaning of success.

The first rule that a geisha is taught, at the age of nine, is to be charming to other women...Every girl in the world should have geisha training.

Tim Tebow cannot dance, I know that. Tebow can do a lot of things, but he can not dance.

Knowledge is never too dear.

I'm just taking it one day at a time. Actually, that's a total lie. I always think about what's in front of me.

Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness in the artist.

I'll write, because I'll give - You critics means to live; For should I not supply - The cause, the effect would die