“I want to be a recording artist for my whole entire life. But Broadway...” — Ariana Grande Quote

“I want to be a recording artist for my whole entire life. But Broadway is something I would come back to at any given moment. I love, love, love doing theater.”

“I can't stress to you enough how much I can relate to teens being cyberbullied. Something that helps me is looking at old videos of me and my friends from middle school, or videos of my family. I love watching funny videos of my favorite people - it really cheers me up.”

“I like very girly, retro inspired, feminine, floral things. I'm not very edgy.”

“I worked with someone who told me they'd never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.”

“I met India Arie, who is one of my favorite artists of all time. It was really sweet; I was broken up with a month before, and she stayed up texting me all night and was helping me through it. Her text message looks like a song of hers. She's sort of become my fairy godmother.”

“Growing up, watching pop music icons, I never saw a solo artist whose main instrument was drums.”

“Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.”

“The biggest success for an artist is to know that his work is being recognised around the world.”

“The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.”

“I'm kind of an insecure artist. I hop from piece to piece. I always think my life depends on every painting. Every painting is my first painting.”

“The danger for any artist whose work is both recognizable and critically acclaimed is complacent repetition - the temptation to churn out easily identifiable, eagerly welcomed, and readily salable designs.”