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'm terrified of growing up. Once you become an adult, how to you step back from that? It's something that wakes me up at night.

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.

I'll let you in on something big: I'm not a white-teeth teen.

Ever since I was a kid, I've been into clothes, but not really labels- that's kind of only been in the last year or so. It's something I've always cared about. I used to just constantly thrift and make stuff and cut stuff up and borrow my dad's stuff and borrow my little brother's stuff and all that jazz. ... It's just, if something is cool, then it's cool.

The way I dress and carry myself, a lot of people find it intimidating. I think my whole career can be boiled down to the one word I always say in meetings: strength.

Don't be afraid. Be the kind of person your mother warned you about.