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"The one thing I do find about serious reviews is that usually they tend to have a point, and that's what I find hurt so much about discerning critics. If the reviews hurt they're probably right on some level."
"I like songs and film because you can turn your life into a sort of myth or dream."
"The work I've done, I'm really feeling the effects of it."
"I was always nervous to play my father's [John Lennon's] songs."
"I don't like when people dress intentionally ugly. Personally that's not my thing."
"I've always been cool, basically. I was cool in utero."
"I wouldn't even say "Imagine" is political. I think it's…more just sort of declaration of humanity. I don't find his political songs to be the ones that I go home and listen to. And I would say that of any artist. They're not the ones that interest…"
"Being famous is having the power to really implement positive change in the world, and it gives you the power to do what you want. I'm really grateful for it because I can play music and people will listen."
"I have a specific set of, I have a specific sort of negative energies to deal with that might be specific to me, but it definitely something that all artists have to deal with at one point or another. But I think for me, it's just maybe more specific."
"Growing up, I fantasized about being a rock musician and that somehow it would be really easy. I didn't realize that it's so much work."
"My tendency is to be very experimental."
"I feel like I've been way overexposed in the press. I'd rather play shows and represent myself in person."
"My favourite men's clothes are like Victorian British clothing."
"You can't just pay attention to the short term, you just have to keep publishing."
"If you give people more perspective of one object, they start to see it more clearly."
"When I was 15, a cabdriver asked me if I was Paul McCartney's daughter."
"Some people feel that it's controversial if I say that because my dad is known as a political artist. But I don't really believe that he was a political artist. I think some of his songs were political, and I think they were incredible because he was able to make art that was political and that wasn't pedantic. But I think he was unique in being able to do that."
"I think when people try to use their art for political views, I think they're art becomes smaller, less interesting. And so for me, as an artist, I'm trying to speak about things in a universal way and not be pedantic or small-minded and try to convince other people of my political views. But having said that, every day I live in sort of complete terror because of what I read in the newspaper and what is going on in the world. I'm constantly, as I think many of us are, overwhelmed by the sort of, mass psychosis that's occurring."