I was very vocal about how I wanted to be portrayed on the show, and how I wanted the stage setup to be.

A lot of people say if you can't love yourself, then you can't love others. It's always different, but I definitely have loved a lot in my life.

I definitely have worked trying to create music that inspires girls to feel confident and strong, and feel like they can do anything.

I've had so many insecurities, and am still getting over a lot.

There are a lot of people who go their whole lives without truly knowing what love is, or ever experiencing that.

I definitely fall in love quickly, and I'm very in love with being in love. But it is hard for me to write about love.

I'll always definitely strive to write songs that are going to help people feel confident in themselves.

I never had a lot of friends growing up so having this insane amount of love and support really means a lot to me.

Just because I'm an artist doesn't mean I should be treated differently.

I see things that nobody else sees

I was always hard on myself for taking things too personally.

The language of love is not words but feelings.

She doesn't understand that doors, walls, fences, ceilings - they're helpless to keep out what determinedly desires to get in.

Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations of misery.

The essence of life will never be captured by even the greatest of formulas.

Yeah, I like to gamble.

I live in a queendom, ruled by a womb-iverse.

I don't think there is prejudice against atheists the same way there is prejudice against fat people. I don't think people hate or contemn atheists; I think people feel sorry for atheists.

Benedict XVI kept saying that homosexuals are deviant. They're not deviant. They're deviant only if you say that anyone who is different from me is abnormal.

Vaisey looked like a startled earwig.

I did not believe what I was told about being poor and black and female in Mississippi in 1954.