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.

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.

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."

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

Sin leads to physical death in the spirit.

I don't know what's worse, being ignored or stared at.

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

It may sound affected - but it is the act of creation itself, and it is equally exhilarating whether one is working on a teaspoon or a national bank.

When I think about why I would be a writer, why I should continue to be a writer, it seems to me one of the few things you can dowhere you're never bored.

To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it.

When you are on the podium nobody is asking you if you are 15 or 30 years old. What matters is who can do great gymnastics.

The more you know about something, the harder it becomes. You become more and more of a perfectionist. I think it's a curse... It's a form of illness!

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

In most cases there are obstacle standing between you and those opportunities in life but, I just want you to know that front row seat is available everywhere.