The fact that I'm getting appreciated and praised alone is a crazy moment because I never thought it would happen.

Stay true to who you are, even though that sounds cliché. It's something that's important - doing what feels right for you.

I think patience is the best thing to try to embrace.

With different scenarios and different places, I think it's easier for me to get inspired; I'm seeing different things.

I feel people are seeing me as a true artist rather than a singer, or an entertainer, or a girl who just makes songs.

If I'm experiencing a different thing every day and seeing a new environment every day, it can create a different mood or different feeling.

The fact that people are embracing me so well as a new artist and being taken so seriously is something I'm really surprised by.

I feel New York is too crazy for me, especially when you go to Times Square.

I want everything, no matter what concept or genre, to feel real, because it is real. I want to keep making real music, I hope people remember me for that, that's a good thing to be remembered for.

It's hard to be taken seriously if you're a young, female artist making pop music; you never know how people are going to react.

YouTube was a way for people to hear me and for me to say, "Hey, I can sing this song, I'm not in front of you yet because I'm too shy, but here's how I sound for now."

Progress however slow is still progress, but be it for the better if sped up quicker.

I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.

The genius is in making the complex simple.

I don't see myself being an actress forever.

I know my statistics have not been the same as in other years but I'm fighting to get back to those statistics.

My little animal secrets must remain my little animal secrets. How I do my nails, that is really my business.

Parents and educators need to establish a culture in which security and clarity of expectations are balanced with the encouragement of playfulness, inquisitiveness and self reliance.

In the world take always the position of the giver.

Being vegan is a glorious adventure. It touches every aspect of my life - my relationships, how I relate to the world.

If there is a case for mental events and mental states, it must be that the positing of them, like the positing of molecules, hassome indirect systematic efficacy in the development of theory.