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"When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24 - year - old girl."
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"As I've said many times, the single most oppressed class in America right now is the teenager."
"I was fifteen.I was bored.I was miserable."
"It's kind of sad, if you think about it. Like there's no continuity in people at all. Like something ruptures when you hit twelve, or thirteen, or whatever the age is when you're no longer a kid but a "young adult, and after that you're a totally different person. Maybe even a less happy person. Maybe even a worse one."
"At 17, the smallest crises took on tremendous proportions; someone else's thoughts could take root in the loam of your own mind; having someone accept you was as vital as oxygen. Adults, light years away from this, rolled their eyes and smirked and said, 'This too shall pass' - as if adolescence was a disease like chicken pox, something everyone recalled as a milk nuisance, completely forgetting how painful it had been at the time."
"Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice."
"Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood."
"You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone."
"Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future."
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"I had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was really fearless with my ambitions."
"I remember watching the mascara tears flood the ivories and I thought, 'It's OK to be sad.' I've been trained to love my darkness."
"My new album that I'm creating, which is finished pretty much, was written with this new instinctual energy that I've developed getting to know my fans. They protect me, so now it's my destiny to protect them."
"You can be surrounded by people, and still be lonely. You can be understood by people, and still feel unknown."
"Where I come from it was really unheard of to be at a party and someone says, 'What kind of music do you make?', and you say, 'Pop music.' You may as well have 'I'm not cool' stamped on your forehead."
"I want women and men to feel empowered by a deeper and more psychotic part of themselves. The part they're always trying desperately to hide. I want that to become something that they cherish."
"I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness."
"Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put on some sunglasses, 'cause we were born this way!"
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