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."

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.

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

I will only start taking book reviews seriously from the day that books are able to review readers.

I love making people uncomfortable, and when people say, 'I cringed watching [that] scene,' that's the biggest compliment you can give me.

And we have very little violence, very, very little violence at the rallies.

There's definitely an obstacle in developing a brand for yourself that people can rely on when you're so eclectic.

All the members of terrorist organizations, even those that portray themselves as Muslim organizations.....they are all Darwinists.

While I'm here on this planet, I really want to create art and do creative things.

Success is often harder to take than failure.

[Ronald] Reagan bitterly hated unions and wanted them destroyed. This began with the air controllers' strike and went on from there.

The supreme task of the Church is the evangelization of the world.

I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.