With pop music and pop musicians, you know everything about everyone all the time, particularly their physical appearance. With female musicians, that's made a big thing of, and I think people, certainly with me, have appreciated a bit of mystery.

I think I'm speaking for a bunch of girls when I say that the idea that feminism is completely natural and shouldn't even be something that people find mildly surprising. It's just a part of being a girl in 2013.

Like wildflowers you must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would.

We're bigger than we ever dreamed, and I'm in love with being queen.

Don't let some random comment that you wouldn't have even thought about overshadow something important that you were actually trying to say.

What I do is so important to me. It’s like being a parent, in some ways, of a super-demanding , high-achieving child, with a cry that sounds really cool on the radio.

I do not need someone to complete me, but if you wanted to, we could walk next to each other into whatever is coming next.