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If you start off as a fearsome figure in pop culture, it's almost axiomatic that at some point, years under the lights softens you into a cuddly family figure.

With pop music and pop musicians, you know everything about everyone all the time, particularly their physical appearance. With female musicians, that's made a big thing of, and I think people, certainly with me, have appreciated a bit of mystery.

When you're a pop star it doesn't mean you just get free stuff.

I'm not the ideal pop star, not what you see on TV. I look like I could be your best friend.

You need a bit more to be a pop star than just a good voice.

I'm masquerading as an innocent pop star.

I like to think of myself as the people's pop star a little bit. I respect Lady Gaga so much, and I love what she does, but she has this kind of mysterious, out-of-reach thing. I'm just not that - as much as I'd love to have that sort of mystique, I think I'm kind of an open book.

I've never really spent too much or put too much gravity or placed too much importance on being a pop star. It's like, OK, great, does that mean I don't have to do anything anymore except walk around and be a pop star?

A rock star is expected to act like a mess, sound like a mess and look like a mess. People don't expect you to show up on time and be a professional. But when you're a pop star, you have to do all that, look perfect and be a role model.

I think, especially in pop culture, we're brought up to think that a normal pop star is this pretty, well-kept-together girl.

I feel like I'm a pop star without being a diva.

You better believe I'm not a pop star.

I'm not a shiny pop star.

I've never really been that into cars. Maybe I just thought that's what pop stars do. They buy flash cars. I was just playing it up a bit, being flash.

What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.

Hollywood is just like high school. The popular people only like the other popular people. And the thing is, some people aren't nice - or they're nice, but only to your face, not elsewhere.

The thing with the film industry is if you become popular in one kind of role, you keep getting cast in the same thing.

In fact, my popularity seems almost entirely a masculine phenomenon.

Popularity isn't an objective in itself. I'm not in this game.

In high school, it was all about popularity, being with the boyfriend and all the girls thinking he's cute.

I said before that I didn't care much about my popularity. But did I make use of it? Yes.

We live in an era of social media. We care more about looks, popularity and followers than about real music. And I wanted to get away from that.

Sometimes music can really seem like a popularity contest with beautiful people.

I've always loved those portraits that Alfred Stieglitz did of Georgia O'Keeffe over several years, which really convey the idea that there's not one image that can capture a woman, because we're changing all the time.