Musician

I do feel pressure from the outside world a little bit just because everybody wants new music, which is really nice. It just proves that everybody likes what I'm doing. But at the same time, I feel like it's important to just chill and experience things and really make the songs true to me.

I was one of those weird kids who didn't really speak or smile. I remember my teachers would call home and ask if everything was fine at home because I would never smile. Then I got into this phase, from maybe fourth to eighth grade, where my personality just did a 180.

I'd like to shut off all the noise and allow people to be creative without all the judgments and standards that we think we have to follow.

I loved the Black Eyed Peas. I was obsessed with them, and they were my favorite group ever, and Amy Winehouse, as well; I love her.

Maybe I'm not a typical pop star, but I don't think there's a mould for a pop star or singer. You can do whatever you want.

I don't really dance. I don't drink or smoke. Being at parties is very awkward.

In late elementary school, early high school, I started losing my hair in chunks in the shower. It was one of the scariest things. It got to the point where it was visibly gone.

Being in the public eye, you're always worried about what angle people are going to take pictures of you at. I don't really care anymore.

Flannel shirts, denim, Converse, a guitar, messy hair? That's literally me.

People want to create something bigger for themselves, and making up drama that isn't there gives people the impression that they have haters. It's all for attention so it looks like they are important.

Beauty comes in all forms. It's not just external; it's internal as well.

It's good to have a reminder that we can love ourselves and be beautiful even though we don't really fit into certain standards of what beauty may be.

I'm not extremely outgoing, but I'm average, I think. When people meet me they'll say, 'Oh you're not that shy...' I never said I was! I see where they're coming from because my biggest single was about being shy at a party - I get it. But it's not 100% accurate.

I'm unpolished, I guess.

I didn't start writing songs, honestly, until I started making my album. I was always doing poetry, but I never thought I could write songs. I discouraged myself and thought it was so hard. But starting this process and learning just what it is to be a songwriter and performer taught me that you don't have to feel discouraged about anything.

Often, as teens, we think we know everything, but actually we're just trying to figure life out, and we don't know much at all.

I really want to speak for young women, especially because I feel like we're constantly brainwashed in everyday life.

I don't put the focus on things that don't matter.

I never thought I'd have a career because of YouTube.

I've never really aspired to the spotlight; I just wanted to do music, which is kind of weird because music comes with that spotlight.