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.

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

Around the middle of last year I started listening to a lot of rap, like Nicki Minaj and Drake... They all sing about such opulence, stuff that just didn’t relate to me - or anyone that I knew. I began thinking, “How are we listening to this? It’s completely irrelevant.”

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.

I've totally learned in this process that 99% of the time, your gut is right, and you know what's right for you. I know exactly what's right for my career and for my art, and sometimes, even if the whole room is saying, 'Don't do that, don't do that,' you know that doing that is going to be good for you, in the long run.

I find this curious - two photos from today, one edited so my skin is perfect and one real. remember flaws are ok.