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At this point it's my duty not to crumble and close off. I've gotten this far because of my willingness to make myself vulnerable.
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Come on. I got drunk when I was like 5.
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Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel it's necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them.
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Five years from now I'm probably going to look back on the things I'm doing and cringe.
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For a while after the rape, I was afraid of my own sexuality, because I got raped right about the time when I started developing physically.
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For me, the best times are always going to be the most intense, the ones with the highest highs and the lowest lows.
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I caved in to what people wanted me to do. I thought that they weren't going to like me if I didn't.
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I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
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I didn't want to blow my shot at making the record the way I wanted to. I was feeling kind of like the company wasn't really excited to have me.
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I don't care what people do. I don't care how people remember my albums. I do them for my own reasons.
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I don't have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic.
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I don't know how I would feel old or young. I don't understand how people can really answer questions like that. I have no basis of comparison; I've never been anyone else.
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I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment.
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I don't really know that much about pianos. I have a great one - It's an upright and It's a Steinway.
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I don't think anyone had it out for me or anything; I was just misunderstood.
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I don't want to give any advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes.
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I figured that the second you leave the room you're pretty much replaced by whatever else is there.
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I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have to take driver's ed. I just kind of went, Oh, forget it.
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
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I got into therapy in the fifth grade because I said in a sarcastic way that I was going to kill myself, and they didn't get it then. Nothing's changed.
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I had been thinking of maybe trying to do something else with my life.
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I hate the fact that celebrities are supposedly a higher class of human being. That's the way I felt growing up, and that's the way I think a lot of people feel.
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I have a very steadfast tendency to parent myself, to monitor my development into the person I want to be. I've tried to keep the corruption minimal.
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I have an intention with how the songs are supposed to come out - but I don't know how to articulate it, musically, with other instruments.
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I have no sense of what gets on radio or MTV. I have not listened to those kinds of radio stations, or I have not watched any MTV in years.
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I just feel like somebody's rifling through my laundry basket.
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I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano.
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I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.
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I never went to concerts when I was a kid, so I never knew if what I was doing onstage was right.
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I read on the Internet that I was dead.
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I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it.
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I resent limitations. I'm going to be this way for a while.
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I seem to have really liked Baldwins, but I haven't played that many pianos. When I was a kid, I used to play piano every day.
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I started to think that a woman's body was her curse, that it was just the bait that attracted all these sharks. I had no sexuality about me. Now I'm getting back to where I was.
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I still don't know what Episcopalian means.
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I think it really demonstrates the power of production when you can see a song in a completely different way.
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I used to learn chords off of guitar chords. In songbooks they have the little guitar things, even though I can't play the guitar. I would work it out from the little dots.
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I used to write stories when I was in my room. This makes me so sad in a certain way.
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I want to be like the patron saint of reality.
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I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how.
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I was so self-critical. I still am, but it's not as bad anymore.
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I went to Hamilton High for one year, in California. That was an awful year.
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I would really like to go back to school. I would love it now.
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I'm here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know something.
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I'm incredibly impressed by people who organize to achieve a goal, and believe that they can make a difference and then go ahead and do just that. I think it's incredible.
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I'm not a control freak.
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I'm not used to not having enough time to live with the songs. Usually, if I write something, I live with it for a little while.
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I've gone through stages where I hate my body so much that I won't even wear shorts and a bra in my house because if I pass a mirror, that's the end of my day.
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I've never been to the websites. It's a lot healthier for me to keep out of the conversations about me.
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If I respect myself and believe in what I'm doing, no one can touch me.
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It was a personal mission to do that video. To get up in front of all those gorgeous girls and strut my stuff.
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Let them know that there is no proper way to kill and cook these beautiful birds.
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Making the video was a huge step for me, because I'm not comfortable doing any of that. When we were shooting, they tried to make me pretty, but that's not what I do: I am paid to sing and perform.
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My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?
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No matter what I do for the rest of my life, I'll know I did something wonderful by saying what I felt.
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No matter what I do, everything is going to work out.
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Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.
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Now I feel like whatever I do, no one can hurt me. I cannot be violated, I cannot be humiliated, I cannot be disregarded, I cannot be disrespected.
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Part of me feels like I'm handling it a lot better than I used to, because I'm just simply not crying all the time. But I also feel like I'm not really handling it as well because I feel completely ridiculous.
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People underestimate how powerful the media is for young people who grow up watching a lot of television. Through the media, we've established this standard of what every human being should look up to.
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Rape is the most humiliating thing that can be done to you; it's the most vulnerable that you can be. But once I realized that, I became a stronger person and faced all my fears.
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Six years away from it really dulled my skill.
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Slowly, people are going to realize they're seeing a completely honest evolution of a human life.
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Some days I have a piano day, and some nights I have a piano night. I'll do it for a while, but It's very, very rare.
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Sometimes interviews are fun and good conversations, but stuff like photo shoots and appearances at places where you have to meet a lot of people-I was never really made for this kind of stuff.
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The age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because I'm 19?
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The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.
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The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.
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There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl.
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We had made up all these demo tapes; we made up 67 or 76. I can't remember. It was the smallest amount that you could order.
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Weird things happen that end up hurting your feelings.
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What if I record something and I love it, and then they own more of my stuff?
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What's really good is African drum music.
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When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.
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Why can't I get up in front of millions of people, as a person who represents my generation, and tell them that I'm angry? Who puts limits on what my personality should be in public?
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Why do I have this reputation for being so sullen and sad? I was so miserable in all the photo shoots.
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