Musician

The definition of being a feminist is equality, and if you're not a feminist at this point, then what are you really promoting?

For some reason, I'm constantly attacked on social media in terms of how I dress. I've never understood that. That's been very hard.

If Ed Sheeran covered my songs, I would die. That would be unbelievable.

There's something so beautiful in a woman who loves her body and is confident.

I think fame is such a scary thing, and it's something I can never understand. It's terrifying, but it's the only way I get to do what I love every day, you know?

I guess people don't think that young girls or young artists have opinions, but I'm so glad that there's artists like Lorde and Raury and Kehlani because they're showing other people that young people can have an opinion and a voice and do really well with it. I'm glad I can be one of those people.

I always did music privately as a hobby, I think partly because I was nervous to do it in front of other people.

I don't want to have one hit, one song of the summer, and then have me disappear forever. I really want my things to last, and I want my songs and my bodies of work to resonate with people. I want to hit people - at least make a dent in them. I want to make a mark somehow.

I'm a fan of real singers. I just gravitate towards that.

I think that my music is really empowering. I just want people to know - especially young people, but really everyone - that you don't have to be so caught up in what everyone else is thinking. You don't have to be the coolest, most popular person. You can just be you and be vulnerable.

I am stubborn enough to know not to change myself.

I would love to host 'Saturday Night Live.' That's one of my goals in life - just putting that out there. I don't know if I'm funny enough, but we'll see.

If I'm kind of an outsider, it just happened that way, and people responded to it.

My family is from the south of Italy in this little place called Calabria. It's a big part of my family, the Italian culture. I grew up around it. My parents speak Italian, and I speak Italian.

I don't know how to talk to people I don't know.

You can do anything and be a star. You can dress like however you want, and you can do whatever you want. If you wanna wear meat suits like Lady Gaga, good. She's freaking amazing! She's doing that, and she's unbelievable. I can wear T-shirts and still be great, too. So that's just what I'm proving to people.

I'm not a fitness model; I'm just a singer. If people focus on that, that's what I care about.

I just dress how I wanna dress. Not to say that I don't care about how I dress or that I'm a slob or anything like that... I just don't have to worry about the outside opinions of what people are saying.

I'm really in touch with my Italian roots. My mom's whole side of the family is there.

When you give your all as an artist, and all people can talk about is what pants you're wearing, it's really frustrating.