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Once you figure out what respect tastes like, it tastes better than attention. But you have to get there.
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I change my mind so much I need two boyfriends and a girlfriend.
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I have to speak for myself. As far as videos go - casting, the artwork, everything - I'm completely hands-on. You have to be if you want your points across.
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I don't live in the Hollywood bubble. I never have and I never will.
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Today, charting your own course isn't just more necessary than ever before. It's also much easier - and much more fun.
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I've always felt like the underdog, and I'm comfortable with that label.
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Sage is cleansing and sacred.
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Every album, I'm worried that I'm a dork and a fraud - 'What if I can't sing anymore?' Then I stop thinking and start playing guitar, and I realize that it's okay to suck, and move forward.
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The whole 'sell out' word to me is such a tired, tired word.
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You can't move mountains by whispering at them.
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I always wrote poetry as a teenager and it was always so dark, but it made me feel good to get it out.
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I sing my life. It's like I'm having group therapy 350 days a year, and the people who come to the show get that, and they're there for that - whether it's to be lifted up, or to be lifted out, or just entertained or inspired, or to feel not so alone.
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The aggressive side of me comes across in my music, but I'm just a sweet girl.
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I've been asked to do 'American Idol' and 'X Factor.' I'm an Ed McMahon kind of girl. 'Star Search?' I'm in, all day long. It felt more authentic, and the market wasn't oversaturated with karaoke contests.
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A lot of people have problems with public confrontation, but it doesn't worry me at all. I can handle myself. I know my martial arts.
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Big productions, to me, are great - like, I love going to Vegas and seeing shows - but I think that sometimes it's distracting, especially when you are there to listen to the music.
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My mom has always wished me a daughter just like me.
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I'm very much in the trenches, and I don't live in the lap of luxury. I come from a working-class military family. We watch the news and read the paper and vote, so there's always something to be upset about. I always have a certain amount of angst in my back pocket.
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I know my strong points: I work hard, I have talent, I'm funny, and I'm a good person.
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I feel like I 'get' boys. I've always been a boy's girl. Boys are easy; they just break stuff.
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I'd love to have time to do my hair, honestly. I'd love to be Victoria Beckham just for one day - to look that good. But I can't.
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I want art to make me think. In order to do that, it may piss me off, or make me uncomfortable. That promotes awareness and change, or at least some discussion.
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I live in America. I love being an American.
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I'm such a control freak, and it's very hard for me to lose my inhibitions without something chemical inside me.