Like Madonna, you say what you think, and consequently, you've caught some controversy with your success. How do you deal with haters?
I let them sip on their haterade. I don't really deal with them because they're inevitable. The Internet is such a widespread place, and there's the disease of what I like to call "anonymous hating" -- it's like ghost haters, people that would never say anything to your face, but they know they're not gonna be caught, so they just say what they feel without any repercussions, when really words are all the same, whether they're written or said to someone's face. Someone's gonna see them, it has an effect. Everybody has an opinion, and I welcome everybody's opinion. I'm not necessarily here to win like a popularity contest -- I'm just here to play music and hopefully reinstate faith in female pop artists.

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