When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful. But it's the intention of the work that's changed. I have fans now. I have a new purpose: to remind them that I am one of them, that we are one another. My consciousness has changed.

I don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way - artistically.

If you don't have any shadows, you're not standing in the light.

I am a feminist. I reject wholeheartedly the way we are taught to perceive women. The beauty of women, how a woman should act or behave. Women are strong and fragile. Women are beautiful and ugly. We are soft-spoken and loud, all at once. There is something mind-controlling about the way we're taught to view women.

People love the chaos in my brain, but I'm terrified of it.

Prejudice is a disease. And when they come for you, or refuse your worth, I will be ready for their stones. I belong to you.

This means more to me than any Grammy I could ever win ... It will take a village and an army, [some] countries and continents to make bullying a hate crime.