“I think people inspire me the most. If I meet a person who is incredibly complex, and all of a sudden, I start thinking in rhymes, that person could be a muse.”
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“There are certain people who elicit a really passionate response. It's crazy. That's my Alexander Wang theory.”
“People like music when they're in love, but they don't need it as much. You need music when you're missing someone or you're pining for someone or you're forgetting someone or you're trying to process what just happened.”
“People like you always want back the love they pushed aside. But people like me are gone forever when you say goodbye.”
“I'm intrigued and drawn to people who know exactly who they are, who know what they want, who live life on their own terms.”
“You have to not only live your life in spite of people who don't understand you, you have to have more fun than they do.”
“I always wanted to know, and I always used to daydream, about what it would be like to stand on a really big stage and sing songs for a lot of people, songs that I had written... Daydreaming was kind of my No. 1 thing when I was little, because I didn't have much of a social life going on.”
“You know, Katie Couric is one of my favorite people.”
“I watched their reactions and emotions, especially to understand what was what I was doing wrong. But then I realized that if I could see these people and take note of everything I saw, I could write a good song.”
“You get to a point where it's like you can't really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.”
“It's not our job to make people like us if they don't.”
“Try things. Laugh a lot. Mess up. Apologize. Hug people. Take chances. Trust yourself. Lose things. Get over it.”
“For me, genres are a way for people to easily categorize music. But it doesn't have to define you. It doesn't have to limit you.”
“I have this fear of falling in front of large groups of people. That's why I tend not to wear heels.”
“The things that make me cry are when the people I love have gone through pain and I’ve seen it.”
“In the beginning I remember when I would spend three hours a day on MySpace just trying to comment everyone back, and now, I spend a half hour a night on MySpace just putting up new stuff and answering people back and monitoring all the fan sites, and saying hi and thank you. I'm still way on top of it. I haven't grown out of it because it'll always be something that helped launch my career, and I'm going to keep maintaining it.”
“I heard that when Christina Aguilera went back to her prom, people, like, booed her. I can't imagine going through that. If you know that's going to happen, why put yourself in that situation? I'd rather play for 20,000 screaming people, you know?”
“I've been on tour since I was 16, and I always do meet-and-greets before and after shows, so you kind of build these friendships with people. I have girls come up to me and tell me exactly what's going on in their love lives.”
“It's pretty unhealthy to obsess over what people think about you.”
“I've never wanted to use my age as a gimmick, as something that would get me ahead of other people. I've wanted the music to do that.”