What really drives me mad about art is that, in America, the only thing you can do is to take it apart.

The music industry is so tied up politically. They're afraid they might let other voices in.

I felt pissed off because I realized that you have to teach people in a clichéd way how to be happy-and happiness has become too one thing in American media. Achieving happiness is not really about having a flat stomach and the best car.

Across the world, on your phone, everybody gets the same list of things to read, listen to, and watch.

I wanted to represent a different decade, and I wanted someone who goes back further than me. I go back the furthest on this thing, I never really noticed that before. I'm going to have to fix that or I'm going to look really old.

I think I have to expand my creativity a bit, because it's difficult for critics to be, "Oh, this person writes their own lyrics and sometimes writes their own beats and sometimes makes her own videos." They funnel me through, "Oh, is it as good as blah-blah's record, which has had 50 million writers on it?"

Everything I think seems to be controversial, so I feel like I need to just go away for a second and put it all down on paper until the storm passes.