I reckon that growing up, listening to so much different music, I think over time I just kind of sucked it all in and it probably comes back out through my music.

I think everyone's so scared of other people judging them.

There's lots of interesting stuff happening in the world. Lots of good and bad things, and there's interest in music still, which there always will be, which is always a good thing.

I liked the idea of being a photographer, just that you take this one picture of this one thing that'll never happen again - it's a bit weird when you think about it.

Once you write and record a song, it becomes everyone else's song.

I don't know anything except being female, so I don't know the opposite of it.

The first song I wrote was called "You" and it was a love song about somebody who didn't even exist. I remember them all because I used to always write terrible poetry. I keep all my notebooks.

I think even though things are changing a bit, we still kind of tend to grow up with girls being like, 'Don't be too loud, don't be too rude, don't be too naughty,' or whatever, to act a certain way.

I don't like to overcook songs.

Artists thrive off each other, and when you see other people doing cool stuff, it inspires you to do cool stuff.

I've never liked songs that are about writing, or struggling to write. Maybe it's because it's too relatable to me.

If you only show me a part of you, I'll only love that part.

I wished my heart would break and get it over with.

In that country, rich or poor, a man was free... So America was a place of which lovers and young people dreamed.

Even the darkest and stormiest sky will give way to a bright and beautiful sun.

You want to be bad, angel? I can teach you every position it comes in

No mortal eye has ever fully seen a flash of lightning ... for no matter how firmly we look, our eyes are sure to be dazzled.

It was a long and gloomy night that gathered on me, haunted by the ghosts of many hopes, of many dear remembrances, many errors, many unavailing sorrows and regrets.

Gimme a visky with a ginger ale on the side - and don't be stinchy, beby.

It's not the failures in our life that define us, it's the moments when we decide that getting back up is all that matters

Give your kids responsibility. Once outside, let them lead, who cares if you get lost; it might be the best trip you've ever had.