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"Madonna's not the best singer in the world, but she was awesome with her entertainment and all of her shock tactics and stuff and that's where it began. She then inspired all sorts of other girls to do that. But I don't know, I just think music's kind of important too. So you've gotta know where that line is especially when you are good at singing."
"People will download the music for free and they'll pay for it if they want to give you a compliment. They don't have to pay for it. And the only way the artist can make money was by touring 'cause the record label didn't take that money. Unfortunately now, cause the record company's not making money from the downloads, now they want to take money away from everything."
"I like to dip in and out of all sorts of different things. God, if I was asked to be in a show, like a real show, I would be so up for doing that."
"I've had to grow up with everyone watching me, which has been hard."
"If you give yourself too much time, you kind of over-obsess about the music. It's not supposed to be like that."
"People say I'm the white Aretha Franklin. I wish I was her."
"I wanted out of my record deal with EMI. They wanted me to record one type of album; I wanted to record the type of music I wanted to make."
"I like many different things you know so I'm probably going to experiment, and if I didn't I'd be a little bit strange and boring and stiff and kind of dead, and I'm very not that."
"When you get your first record deal, you will do anything, because you just want to sing."
"I feel like I'm a quick learner and I'm also very quick to forget. That's why I can't play an instrument because I can't bloody remember it."
"The big, big record labels have so much control. I think too much control that it actually made their artists scared to not do what they were told and then the music suffers because of that dynamic and now there's the power of the download."
"I would never want something I'm wearing or the way I'm dancing or something to overshadow what I'm doing. I'd rather grab people's attention with my voice."
"The fact is when I get pissed off about something or something awful has happened, I just say, 'You know what? Thank you very much. Thank you for the lyrics. Because that is exactly what you just gave me.' There's no real negative then. So if something happens, I don't cry about it. I just find myself a pen and I figure it out."
"When you have the opportunity to make music with great musicians, take it. That's it. That's the only reason I need, really."
"I'm just very much in love with love. I have this fairy-tale idea of what love should be, and I want it to be magical. I want everything in my life to be magical, actually. If you ever come to my house, you'll see what I mean. I've made it like a fairyland. Flowers and hearts everywhere, and there's colors and little gems hanging from the windows. I just like things to be magical if they can be, and in love there's your opportunity. I think that's how it should be, and if it's not like that, then, "Nah. Don't want it"."
"There's always a silver lining to every cloud and everything has to happen for a reason and if everything's really challenging, then you can make it into a positive."