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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 have never spoken to Eminem. I've never even spoken to him once.
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I know what it takes, and you have to fight for yourself and what you believe in.
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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 try to photobomb as much as possible.
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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 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 view myself as a male artist.
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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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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 turned sadness into an anthem for not letting anything or anyone slow you down.
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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 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're fighting to be ourselves in a world that's trying to make us like everyone else.
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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.
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I'm constantly hydrating my hair.
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If you can't find dry shampoo, baby powder is great.
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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'm definitely inspired by old hip-hop.
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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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I went through that stage of the Mumford & Sons and the Alanis Morissette vibe. I was in a dark place at the time.
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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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It's weird to me when an artist comes in, and the label says, 'We want him to sound like Chris Brown,' but he says he wants to sound like Sean Paul. There's a huge disconnect – it's like we're making a product.
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I don't judge people on their personal lives.