If you’re passionate about something then it will definitely work out for you. You should never stop believing in something, and you shouldn’t listen to anyone who tells you otherwise. Never give up on something you love

When life deals us cards,

make everything taste like it is salt.

Then you come through like the sweetener you are

to bring the bitter taste to a halt

Falling, falling, but I never thought you’d leave me

Misogyny is ever-present, and we have to be there to support one another. It’s about the sisterhood. There’s no competing in that

I’m in love with the pain / I never want to live without it / so why do I try / you drive me insane / now we’re screaming just to see who’s louder

I wanted to make people feel really good when they listen to this. The thing that my friends say when they listen to this album is, ‘This feels like the girl we hang out with.’ When they listen they’re like, ‘This is our friend

The day you left me an angel cried

I have a lot to say that could probably help people that I do want to share, but I have a lot that I still need to process myself and will probably never be ready to talk about

I cried enough tears/ to see my reflection in them/ and then it was clear/ I can’t deny, I really miss him

I can see this stronger, amazing, fearless version of myself that one day I hope to evolve into

The light is coming to give back everything the darkness stole

I’m a person who’s been through a lot and doesn’t know what to say about any of it to myself, let alone the world

Ain’t got no tears in my body I ran out, but boy, I like it, I like it, I like it

If I’m completely honest, I don’t remember those months of my life because I was…so sad. I don’t really remember how it started or how it finished, or how all of a sudden there were 10 songs on the board

We’ll get through this, we’ll get past this, I’m a girl with

A whole lot of baggage

But I love you, we’ll get past this, I’m a girl with

A whole lot of baggage

It’s hard to sing songs that are about wounds that are so fresh

I don’t think we’ve ever been through anything as traumatic as what we’ve been through

It’s not my trauma

Just keep breathin’ and breathin’ and breathin’ and breathin’ — and oh, I gotta keep, keep on breathin’ — just keep breathin’ and breathin’ and breathin’ and breathin

I have to be the luckiest girl in the world, and the unluckiest, for sure

How absurd that you minimize female self-respect and self-worth by saying someone should stay in a toxic relationship…I am not a babysitter or a mother and no woman should feel that they need to be.

If you know how to be my lover maybe you can be my baby

I look forward to hopefully learning to give some of the love and forgiveness that I’ve given away so frivolously and easily to men in the past to myself, hopefully, this year

Just as long as I’m the name on your tattooed heart

This is how I meet people — I can’t just, like, meet someone at a bar. I live fast and full-out, and I make mistakes, and I learn from them and I’m grateful no matter what happens

Why’d you have to be so cute. It’s impossible to ignore you

Unconditional love is not selfish. It is wanting the best for someone even if at the moment, it’s not you.

Now all my emotions are all ’cause of you

You should feel grateful and happy that you’re healthy, you’re alive, and that you are loved. Whatever weight you are, whatever situation you’re in, whether you have a breakout, whatever it is — you are loved

What you don’t understand is falling in love wasn’t part of my plan

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories

And we almost knew what love was, but almost is never enough

Love comes in many different forms. You can love somebody and not be in love with them. They can break your heart and you can cry over it but still not be in love with them. Love is a really peculiar thing.

I’m so into you I can barely breathe

I’ve never looked at love as something that I need to complete me. I would like to be complete on my own first and fall in love with somebody who is also complete. You can still celebrate and be totally obsessed with each other, but I want to feel a 100% myself so that I can love that person better

One last time I need to be the one who takes you home.

A lot of people forget about the whole self-love thing when they’re in love, and both are imperative.

Just a little bit of your heart is all I’m asking for

I appreciate people exactly how they are, there isn’t a certain kind of beauty that I look for or appreciate or one thing [that] is more beautiful than the other. I love people’s uniqueness, I love the quirky, weird, and interesting — different things about everybody

One taught me love, one taught me patience and one taught me pain

Only be with somebody if they make you feel like the best version of yourself. You can’t sacrifice yourself for anybody, you know

Know that you are just as perfect as anyone else, exactly as you are

Some people will find any reason to hate, don’t waste your time. Lighten up! It takes so much less energy to smile than to hate…enjoy life.

I don’t really believe in any fashion rules. I think fashion is a form of self-expression, wear whatever you want

The thrill of not knowing what’s going to happen trained me to be prepared for anything

We have to lift each other up, not try and claw each other down

The best fashion advice I’d say would be just to do what makes you comfortable and what makes you feel cute

Friendly reminder to be nice to yourself. We often make things harder for ourselves than they actually are. Be good to your brain

The best part about having true friends is that you can go months without seeing them and they’ll still be there for you and act as if you’d never left!

There’s always tomorrow and it always gets better

One of the most terrible feelings in the world is knowing that someone else doesn’t like you. Especially when you don’t know what you’ve done to deserve it

Don’t ever doubt yourselves or waste a second of your life. It’s too short, and you’re too special

When you feel your best, everybody else can feel it, too

Be happy with being you

I think it’s so important for girls to love themselves and treat their bodies respectfully

Love your flaws

If anyone tries to bully you don’t let them. Take the positive energy form a ball of rainbow power and just, like shove it

Own your quirks

School is tough sometimes, but it’s all about knowing who your real friends are.

Learn from your mistakes. Take responsibility and forgive yourself

I’m going to be the lady my mother raised and carry myself with class and dignity… But I will never be any man’s press opportunity.

The incredible double standards that we [women] face on a daily basis, in the industry and just in the world, it’s shocking

I also think a lot of people don’t know what the word ‘diva’ means…if you want to call me a diva I’ll say, ‘Um, well, cool.’ Barbra Streisand is a diva; that’s amazing. Celine Dion is a diva; thank you

The things that make us different from one another are the things that make us beautiful

We didn’t have any mafia ties. I feel like we knew some of the mafia but we were not involved for sure. I do know somewhere down the line there were some friendships. No mafia ties though, it wasn’t something I bragged about

I…do not belong to anyone but myself. And neither do you.

I’m a big nerd. I love Lord of the Rings. I love Harry Potter. I love scary movies. I love dinosaurs, science, aliens, ghosts

We are not objects or prizes. We are queens.

Everybody’s got something to say, but I’d rather be the person who’s honest than the person who’s like, ‘Oh that’s personal, I’m not going to tell you.’ I’ve always had an open, honest relationship with my fans.

We’ve always had a very weird, like, Addams Family sense of humor. My mom’s fabulous, but I’ve never seen her in anything but black.

Love comes in many different forms. You can love somebody and not be in love with them. They can break your heart and you can cry over it but still not be in love with them….love is a really peculiar thing

I was like a mini-Helena Bonham Carter

My mom is a CEO and owns a company that manufactures communications equipment for the Marines and the Navy, so she’s not really the housewife type, if you get what I’m saying. She’s the most badass, independent woman you’ll ever meet

I always wanted to have face paint on or be wearing a Freddy Krueger mask

Spiritual enlightenment and self-protection are more effective than drugs and alcohol, I feel

The fact that all of those people were able to turn something that represented the most heinous of humanity into something beautiful and unifying and loving is just wild

For my fifth birthday party we had a ‘Jaws’ theme

I’ve never been this vulnerable to myself. I feel like I graduated almost. I feel like for a long time the songs were great, but they weren’t songs that made me feel something the way these songs do

Head in the clouds, got no weight on my shoulders

Cause tonight I’m making deals with the devil and I know it’s gonna get me in trouble

Ain’t got enough money to pay me respect

And if it feels right, promise I don’t mind.

I don’t need to live by your rules, you don’t control me.

Baby, you got lucky cause you’re rocking with the best

I’m over here working day and night and if my real ain’t real enough, I’m sorry for you, bae

Anytime, anywhere, baby boy, I can misbehave

Tonight I’m a baller babe

Don’t need permission, made my decision to test my limits

Something about you makes me feel like a dangerous woman.

Wake up in my bed, I just wanna have a good day

Think it in my head, then it happens how it should, ayy

All girls wanna be like that, bad girls underneath like that

Don’t get mad at me cause you’ve been replaced, know your place.

But close ain’t close enough ’til we cross the line, baby

Somethin’ bout you makes me wanna do things that I shouldn’t

So name a game to play, and I’ll roll the dice, hey