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

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

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.

So many interviews, even ones that I consider really intelligent and good writers, will do the, like, 'Oh, you're not taking your clothes off like Miley Cyrus and all these girls' thing, which to me is just the weirdest thing to say to someone. ... Now when people are like, 'Tell me what you think of Miley!' I'll say, 'What do you think of Miley?' and they'll flounder and say, 'Well, I think she's really talented...' and I'm like, there you go.

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.

David Bowie told me my music sounds like tomorrow

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