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There's nothing mathematical to my writing. It's a feeling.
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I think, especially in pop culture, we're brought up to think that a normal pop star is this pretty, well-kept-together girl.
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I was the girl that didn't go to prom or my graduation because I was too busy working with producers and making music.
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I try to photobomb as much as possible.
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You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like it, then it is what it is.'
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I grew up in the era of Britney Spears, where artists had songs written for them, and you got up and sang them. That's how I always thought it was.
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I just want to be a little more real. Maybe I'm a little bit darker than others.
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I view myself as a male artist.
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I never thought of myself as a songwriter. I was just an artist writing songs, and they just happened to get placed.
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I write all of my songs from scratch, so the one thing I love about EDM is the way a song transforms into a piece of art, and how the different sounds can change the feel of the record.
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We don't wake up happy and looking absolutely perfect and feeling amazing every day, you know? We're only human. So I think, with me, I'm not really scared to let people see that - because it's real.
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I turned sadness into an anthem for not letting anything or anyone slow you down.
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Anytime there was an award show, it was a ritual where me and my mom would sit around and watch with my friends. We would make desserts and buy chips and popcorn and see what our favorite performances of the night were.
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I'm constantly hydrating my hair.
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I think in a lot of situations I had got songs stolen from me, or treated badly.
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I have put absolutely everything into my album. I feel like it's been such a long journey to get here. It is like giving birth to my first child, and I want to make sure I did everything right.
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We're fighting to be ourselves in a world that's trying to make us like everyone else.
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Nicki Minaj is a very strong woman who knows exactly what she wants. As an artist, I understand her, and I could see how she could be misunderstood by a lot of people, but she is really passionate about her art, and that's something I really admire about her.
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I'm definitely inspired by old hip-hop.
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I bought these pink sticker things... and I would write things on them, and I wrote, 'I will write an international smash,' and shortly after, it was when we did 'Monster,' and it was an international smash.