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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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Graduation, Got, Just Kind, All My Work

I can bake. I made myself some nice French fries once. But otherwise I just eat out. Lots of salad bars.

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Salad, Some, Otherwise, Bars

I want to be like the patron saint of reality.

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Want, Like, Saint, Patron

But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.

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Good, About, Dad, Reviews

I'm not the Queen. I'm not a huge superstar; I don't get paparazzi around me.

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Queen, Me, Get, Paparazzi

I just tend to do things to myself that I don't realize I'm doing. Sometimes I bite my lip so that it splits and hurts, and yet I can't stop. And sometimes I'd play shows on the last run, I'd scratch my neck while I was singing, and I'd horrified to see these red streaks of blood after.

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Play, Doing, Splits, Scratch

There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl.

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Cool, Bad, Everybody, Bad Girl

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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Thought, Sexuality, About, Underwear

I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.

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Thought, Away, Balloons, Floating

I feel like I'm 100 years old. I can't tell you what I did today. I can't tell you what I did for seven years. I can't tell you. It happens so seamlessly - I'm just floating along and seven years go by.

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Old, Like, Seamlessly, Floating

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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Mirror, Through, Pass, Bra

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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Best, Always, Going, Highs

Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.

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Restaurant, Going, Felt, Freaks

Five years from now I'm probably going to look back on the things I'm doing and cringe.

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Doing, Now, Going, Cringe

I think I'm better at live shows than I used to be because I'm way more comfortable with the uncomfortable pauses between songs. Now, rather than trying to talk or do a costume change, I'll use those moments for myself. I listen to what other people are playing, or just rest, or dance, even though I don't know how to.

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Other, I Think, Rather, Live Shows

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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Goal, Think, I Think, Make A Difference

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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Done, Realized, Became, Humiliating

I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment.

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Politics, Entertainment, Mix

I was so self-critical. I still am, but it's not as bad anymore.

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Bad, Still, Am, Self-Critical

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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Feel, Like, Violated, Disregarded

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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Kind, Like, Made, Photo Shoots

In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.

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Comfortable, More, Else, Strange Way

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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Myself, Therapy, Going, Changed

When I was a kid - 10, 11, 12, 13 - the thing I wanted most in the world was a best friend. I wanted to be important to people; to have people that understood me. I wanted to just be close to somebody.

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Best, People, Kid, Understood

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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Parent, Development, Very, Steadfast

In a sense it's a lot crazier when you're on the road and it's a lot less stable, but it's actually really healthy for me because it keeps me from isolating, which I tend to do a lot.

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Sense, Less, Which, Crazier

I wrote 'Criminal' in 45 minutes when everyone else went to lunch because I had to have a hit. I can force myself to do the work, but only if someone is right up behind me.

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Lunch, Behind, Had, Criminal

I got a lot of problems, but I'm really good at intuiting what I need to do to be happy with whatever I create. I know when to stop myself, I know when to start, I know when to leave something alone. I guess I just kind of indulge that completely, and so I just take my time.

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Happy, Got, Just Kind, Indulge

I'm not a control freak.

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Control, Freak, Control Freak

I still don't know what Episcopalian means.

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Know, Still, Means, Episcopalian

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