It's hard to be taken seriously if you're a young, female artist making pop music; you never know how people are going to react.

People don't care what men wear or how they look. Unfortunately for women, the music industry is very visual and objectifying. The objectification of our bodies and using our bodies to sell things needs to change. A lot of this marketing stuff comes from men, so we definitely need more women behind the scenes.

I feel people are seeing me as a true artist rather than a singer, or an entertainer, or a girl who just makes songs.

I feel New York is too crazy for me, especially when you go to Times Square.

I think patience is the best thing to try to embrace.

If I'm experiencing a different thing every day and seeing a new environment every day, it can create a different mood or different feeling.

It's really great that people are seeing me as a credible person. That alone is great. And the fact that people make fan accounts for me and recognize me now sometimes is really strange and cool.