The Shape Is The Most Important To

Growing Up As A Chubby Kid With A Ton Of Imaginary Friends And A Cyndi Lauper Obsession, I Learned About Rejection Early On And Was Constantly Trying To Avoid It.

I Always Think That People Think That Women In Music Are Always Angry. I'm Not Angry. Rock 'n' Roll Music Made By Men Is So Much More Over-the-top Aggressive Than When A Women Says "you" And They're Screaming It, It's Like, 'oh My God!' I'm Like, 'have You Heard Rock Music Made By Men?'

I Always Was Really Confident About Myself, About My Voice, Myself As A Person, My Body, All Of Those Things, But As A Songwriter - I Just Didn't Identify As A Songwriter At All.

The Plus-size Revolution That Has Been Happening Lately Is Incredible But It's Also Creating This "other" Beauty Standard In Which You Have To Be An Hourglass, You Have To Be Super Sexy And Fierce About Showing Off Your Curves. That's Quite Frightening To Me, And I Don't Fit In It, I Don't Want To Fit It.

It's Funny How Something So Normal And Mundane That You See Every Day-your Body-can Be Controversial. The Shock Value Is Intense. It's Like Carrying An Art Piece Around With You All The Time.