A lot of my hair and makeup, and everything I pull for inspiration, is [drawn] from old photographs.

Being yourself is one of the hardest thing because it's scary you always wonder whether you'll be accepted for who you really are.

Never get your girlfriend a pet that she didn't know she was getting.

It's the best feeling when you wake up and it's warm and cozy, and you don't have to go to work.

Life can be very funny and very tragic. Everyone has stuff that they've been through that makes up whatever fire it is that they have in their gut, but nobody goes around wearing that as their outmost exterior, all the time.

I think I kind of came out of the womb singing. I think I was, like, born at the hospital, and, you know, popped out, and was singing. ... I'm not sure really how it happened. I can't remember a time when I wasn't singing, or banging a beat on the dinner table...

I've never had siblings, I didn't grow up in a big family; it was just me and my single mom. And hectic family dysfunction was actually something that I craved.