Prejudice is a disease. So is fashion. But I will not wear prejudice.

If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.

I’ve had enough, this is my prayer, that I’ll die living just as free as my hair.

I've been actually really very pleased to see how much awareness was raised around bullying, and how deeply it affects everyone. You know, you don't have to be the loser kid in high school to be bullied. Bullying and being picked on comes in so many different forms.

I love my friends and my past, and it's made me who I am.

I think it's absolutely a blessing when you just know what your purpose is and your destiny. I don't think it's a curse at all.

I used to get made fun of for being either too provocative or too eccentric, so I started to tone it down. I didn't fit in, and I felt like a freak.