As a pop star, you don't have to be that smart for people to think you're intelligent.

I'm fiercely independent, but I'm also terrified of being alone.

I've always felt a little misrepresented in the world.

I have a high self-opinion - I don't need to hide that. I don't need to be self-deprecating.

I'm confident. Some people don't like confidence. They resent confidence.

I'm feeling like the music business is reaping what it's sown. It's going through what inevitably it was going to go through. It was a very decadent, very glamorous business that took advantage of a lot of people for a long time and didn't do things right and had a poor business model.

I think pain is the best feeling for song writing. You can write good happy songs, but I think the kind of bruiting, depressing ones are more effective. They are easier to write when I am impassioned and angry. It is a good way to channel that negative energy.