I do appreciate the ’80s as an era, the general sounds and aesthetics of the era. The Cure, that whole kind of image is really kind of amazing, I think. The power ballads and how everything sparkles and words are really dramatic. Huge drums, things like that. I do really find it inspiring.
If I’m really honest, I can’t cook. I’m, like, the worst, worst, worst cook in the world.
‘True Romance’ was definitely, in part, still me finding my voice as a writer. I was nervous, and I was a lot more shy. The album sounds bruised.
I wish I could rap! I wish I could rap like Azealia Banks or Lil Wayne or someone like that… Twista. He’s super fast.
I’m going to build an empire. I’m always writing for someone else. I want to be someone who has her fingerprints all over the pop charts.
Whether I’m writing for myself or someone else, I’ll always write a song that I would feel comfortable singing.
I like befriending my collaborators because I’d rather make music with people I like than people I pretend to like.
Making my first record, I was really inspired by all the color palettes Sofia Coppola has in her films.
I had this dream to be a rapper when I was younger.
I love Tinashe.
I was in the playground, like, ‘Let’s imitate the Spice Girls and form a girl group!’ I would go home and sing into my hairbrush and act like Britney Spears. I was no Mozart.
My hair is naturally super curly. But I really don’t do so much to it. I just sleep on it and see what happens.
Sometimes I feel like I was born in the wrong year – I think it would have been cool to be alive in the ’60s.
I think the best people are the ones who are just as nice and fun. This is really cheesy, but you only have one life – why spend most of it pretending to be cool?
I feel like I can be six different people in one day sometimes. Which is fun but also really strange in my own brain.
Most of my youth I spent being obsessed with Baby Spice, so she was my favorite for a really long time. Now that I’m older, I actually really like Posh Spice the best. Nineties Victoria Beckham is perfection, I think.
I always see my songs in colors, and I’m often more inspired by movies and photographs than I am by other songs when I write my music. I’m also inspired by fashion, and I want my music to be a visual painting of what’s in my mind.
You should respect the people you are around.
I think it’s awesome when a woman is in control of everything she’s doing, especially in an industry like this where people think that doesn’t happen often, but it really does – well, from my knowledge and how I manage my own project.
The scenes in ‘The Virgin Suicides’ where Elle Fanning is ice skating are really amazing.
I believe I deserve everything that could maybe happen. And I don’t think that’s a cocky thing to say because I’ve worked really hard, and I’ve never bitten the hand that fed me, and I’ve always been really respectful.
My real friends are definitely the people I grew up with – the people who don’t care about my music career at all.
I love the Nineties because more than any other period of time, there was such an eclectic mix of styles going on. More so than in the Sixties and Seventies, when there was an overriding look and sound.
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