About 50 percent of the songs on the radio are like, 'Live like tomorrow doesn't exist. Like it's my birthday. Like it's the last day of my life'... Such a large percentage of pop music is really about party time.

I'm just trying to work out a way to be a singer and to create cool content. I'm willing to do that as an entertainer. But I'm not willing to give up my actual self.

I liked myself much more before I got famous. I was much friendlier and had more energy.

I'll be the songwriter for pop stars and then they can be the front person and I don't have to be famous.

When I was 10, my parents really valued success in the arts, and I thought if I was a famous 'something artistic,' that they would love me more.

I appreciate my music is famous, but I'd rather my face wasn't so that I can just live a normal life.

If anyone besides famous people knew what it was like to be a famous person, they would never want to be famous.

I got a little bit famous. I didn't like it.

I don't want to be famous or recognizable. I don't want to be critiqued about the way that I look on the Internet... I've been writing pop songs for pop stars for a couple years and see what their lives are like, and that's just not something I want.

I don't really even go out that much now, except to walk my dogs, because I don't want to be recognised. I used to be a really friendly person, and now I just want to be invisible. I liked myself much more before I got famous. I was much friendlier and had more energy.

I used to be addicted to 'Reader's Digest' growing up. I would read the stories about love, and I guess that's where I became a hopeless romantic. I draw from that a lot.

This is a sick business. It's so sad.

I started dating JD Samson from Le Tigre, and suddenly I was listening to more up-tempo music and old dance music, like ESG and Gang of Four, and I thought, 'Wow. This is fun.'

I have big dreams. I want to keep songwriting. Direct films. Be a parent.

I'd had a relationship with a woman when I was 20, but nobody cared then. As it came out at the same time as my fame, I started to have panic attacks.

That's the thing about awards - it's for the people who do all the hard work behind the scenes. An award is just a clap at them.

We all need to stand together and be a part of creating the future we hope to see.