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.

Everyone can access the parts of themselves that are great. I'm just a girl from New York City who decided to do this, after all. Rule the world! What's life worth living if you don't rule it?

I dont really ever compare myself to other people, I dont even measure myself in terms of anyone but myself.

I don't like celebrities; I don't hang out with them; I don't relate to that life.

Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all.

I want you to forget all your insecurities. I want you to reject anyone of anything that's ever made you feel like you don't belong or don't fit in or made you fell like you're not good enough or pretty enough or thin enough or can't sing well enough or dance well enough or write a song well enough or like you'll never win a Grammy or you'll never sell out Madison Square Garden, you just remember that you're a goddamn superstar and you were born this way!

Women are strong and fragile. Women are beautiful and ugly. We are soft spoken and loud, all at once.