So there's nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who's cool hates - and then making it cool.

I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.

I've made it my goal to revolutionise pop music.

I was very depressed when I was 19... I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me.

Celebrate all the things you don't like about yourself. love yourself.

There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.

I never care personally what people say about me. The music, and the message - this will always be more important to me than people thinking I'm the best.