SUS PALABRAS
"At this point it's my duty not to crumble and close off. I've gotten this far because of my willingness to make myself vulnerable."
"Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel it's necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them."
"Five years from now I'm probably going to look back on the things I'm doing and cringe."
"For a while after the rape, I was afraid of my own sexuality, because I got raped right about the time when I started developing physically."
"For me, the best times are always going to be the most intense, the ones with the highest highs and the lowest lows."
"I caved in to what people wanted me to do. I thought that they weren't going to like me if I didn't."
"I don't want to give advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes."
"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."
"Weird things happen that end up hurting your feelings."
"Slowly, people are going to realize they're seeing a completely honest evolution of a human life."
"I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it."
"I resent limitations. I'm going to be this way for a while."
"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."
"I figured that the second you leave the room you're pretty much replaced by whatever else is there."
"I had been thinking of maybe trying to do something else with my life."
"Rape is the most humilitaing 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."
"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."
"I want to be like the patron saint of reality."
"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."
"I don't know how I would feel old or young. I don't understand how people can really answer questions like that. I have no basis of comparison; I've never been anyone else."
"I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not."
"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."
"When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone."
"Why can't I get up in front of millions of people, as a person who represents my generation, and tell them that I'm angry? Who puts limits on what my personality should be in public?"
"I used to write stories when I was in my room. This makes me so sad in a certain way."
"I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how."
"I was so self-critical. I still am, but it's not as bad anymore."
"I don't care what people do. I don't care how people remember my albums. I do them for my own reasons."
"My biggest inspiration has been romantic relationships, because there's something about the way that you are in a relationship that is reflective of your relationship with the world."
"If I respect myself and believe in what I'm doing, no one can touch me."
"My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?"
"No matter what I do for the rest of my life, I'll know I did something wonderful by saying what I felt."
"No matter what I do, everything is going to work out."
"Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice."
"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."
"Part of me feels like I'm handling it a lot better than I used to, because I'm just simply not crying all the time. But I also feel like I'm not really handling it as well because I feel completely ridiculous."
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