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. ...I find a lot of feminist reading quite confusing and that often there's a set of rules, and people will be like, 'Oh, this person isn't a true feminist because they don't embody this one thing,' and I don't know, often there is a lot of gray area that can be hard to navigate.

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.

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.

Does anything really matter? We all end up in the same place. All that's left is our Wikipedia entry.

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.

Of course I got lipstick all over my lil' nose in about 5 seconds, nothing's changed.