“I got pretty sick after the shoot. [Laughs] I think there was mold in that house. I was like, ‘You know what? Die for your art.’”

“Every single tour I’ve ever gone on since I was 16 years old, I’ve gotten really sick at some point for two to three weeks. I’ve never canceled a show because I was sick. I always try to push forward and just not talk until I’m onstage, and most of the time I get through unscathed.

“If I’m being completely transparent, I don’t do anything anticipating what the reaction will be. I only do things that speak to me, that feel right, and make sense when you hear the music. … So the reaction is fascinating to me. You just watch it unravel and go, ‘Wow.’”

“I mean, there’s a lot of nuance to this and I’m not naive to that, but I felt like, “Why is this taboo?” This is something that women experience in such a real way, becoming comfortable with themselves and who they are. There’s so many reasons why I called it Man’s Best Friend and there’s so many layers in the experiences that I was going through at the time where, emotionally, I felt like one. I’m really, really grateful that there’s enough of my audience that really knows me as a person that will be able to hear these songs how they’re intended. It’s always going to be up to interpretation and I understand that. But I’m glad you like my sexual content.”

It’s usually pretty insufferable men that think I’m hideous, but when I think about beauty, it’s been about when I myself feel beautiful. It has nothing to do with other people. I haven’t really grappled with what’s going to happen as I get older, but my mom’s always been a natural beauty and always really encouraged me to just let it happen. She’s like, “Let the world weather you.” The world is definitely weathering me right now.

“Genuinely? I don’t have a vice. I don’t smoke, I don’t drink to deal with things. I let loose by not answering texts.”