I feel like it's my responsibility to be the greatest I can be. If I go out there and start making terrible music, I don't expect people to like me. If I'm making great music and there's no reason for people to not like me, that's when it's going to make me upset. People just need to take a chance and listen.

I don't like it when a girl trys to hard and puts loads of makeup on. You gotta show some of yourself.

I was interesting in discovering more about [Elizabeth Taylor], and I always tried to focus more on the woman than the legend or the icon and everybody's own individual version of what that is. She was badass! Really strong. And eccentric and fiery and powerful and clear and blunt. Spoke like a sailor. She was extreme, but she had the ability to love again and again and again and still believe in it every time.

If you pay too much attention to hate, they win...they bring you down. Too much love in the world to deal with that nonsense. Be positive.

No matter how talented you are not everyone is going to like you but that's life, stay strong

It's not me trying to act or pose in a certain way. It's a lifestyle - like a suaveness or a swag, per se.

Change is uncomfortable. Write that down.