On Hardships
"You deal. You survive. You grow up and you build a career. And you remember these big/little hardships. They make you human."
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On Making People Talk
"You’re always going to make people talk. You might as well make them talk for like, two weeks, rather than two seconds."
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On Being Who You Are
"This is who I am. I think it’s only hard if you’re trying to be something you’re not. Being who you are is really easy."
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On Perfection
"Being perfect is so boring."
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On Beauty
"Beauty is the enemy. We try to conquer not feeling beautiful all our lives. It’s a battle that can’t be won. There’s no definition of beauty. The only way to achieve beauty is to feel it from inside without breaking it down into individual physical attributes."
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On Being Charming
"I think that turning on the charm without being fake is really important."
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On Media Buzz
"And I mean, who cares what the media buzz is if Kanye West is telling you that you’re the shit?"
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On Shocking People
"I know what I'm doing. I know I'm shocking you."
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On Being Yourself
"Don’t be anything you don’t want to be. Always be yourself."
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On Her Music
"I need to treat my music like a relationship — give it my time and all the attention it deserves — and that’s my main love right now. This is the best time of my life. I’m not going to look back on it and be like, ‘I wish I hadn’t been dwelling over a breakup,’ you know?"
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On Her Mouth
"It’s my mouth, I can say what I want to."
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On Teamwork
"Alone we can’t do much but together we can change the world."
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On Her Tongue
"I just stick my tongue out because I hate smiling in pictures. It's so awkward. It looks so cheesy. Now people expect it, like, 'Put your tongue out!' It's just easier that way. Taking pictures is so embarrassing. But there's also something about it that I think is cool. Every other girl is so serious –- like, this is my moment on the red carpet, I'm in my ball gown, looking pretty. There's something empowering about what I'm doing right now. Especially having 'short hair don't care.' I think it's empowering for girls. Because there's not one thing that defines what beauty is."
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On the Big Picture
"It is important to ask yourself why you’re doing what you’re doing and what purpose it serves in the big picture."
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On Making Mistakes
"The minute you stop making mistakes is the minute you stop learning."
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On Happiness
"At the end of the day, the person that has to be happy is me."
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On Performing
"As soon as I step on that stage, nothing matters. I don’t think of it as work, it’s just so much fun."
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On Wisdom
"Even the hard times are part of your life story. If you acknowledge them and move past them, they eventually add up to the experience that makes you wise."
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On Other People’s Kids
"People that judge me or call me crazy, they don’t know half the stuff their kids are doing."
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On Learning
"The best part of my career is getting to meet so many different people, because I learn so much from everyone."
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On Representing Country Girls
"There is no girl out there speaking on behalf of the country girls who are turnt up."
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On her Drug of Choice
"I think weed is the best drug on Earth."