Max: "It's important to do something outside the box, and maybe that'll inspire people do also do something outside the box."

Max: "I feel like I grow wings on stage."

Max: "I don't want to go to the designer that everyone is going to. I want to find a designer that maybe no one's paying attention to... And I'm not afraid to wear something crazy and ridiculous."

Max: "I think, personally for me I always work on the next goal and wanna figure out how to achieve it."

Max: "When I'm on stage I become a different beast."

Max: "I'm someone who speaks my mind, so it was important to me that my publisher values originality and creative expression."

Max: "I think for me personally, I have a lot sides to me."

Max: "It was very tough to get people to believe in my project. Everyone had their own ideas, and they wanted to mold me into something I wasn't."

Max: "I never thought I would write about my personal life, ever."

Max: "I think we all have different personalities... and even in relationships, we can be called psycho, and we can be called sweet, based on what the person feels about you."

Max: "You can't hide away from your personal life, because I was trying to hide."

Max: "I could probably have an idea one day and then go into the studio and really wanna write about just that idea that I have in mind. Or it can vary with just a simple beat and I just do a bunch of melodies on the track that inspire me."

Max: "I am straight up, unapologetically pop."

Max: "Love and hate are two of the strongest emotions we feel in relationships."

Max: "I used to always say teleportation for those times when you want to skip the commute, the traffic, the wait. Now, however, I think I'd really love the power to just heal people. Heal sickness, sadness, and pain. It's really all the world needs."

Max: "I want women to know all around the world that they have the power!"

Max: "It is sometimes fun when you party and listen to those fun songs but they don't have a lot of meaning behind them."

Max: "I want more people to speak up about issues, like equal pay."

Max: "I definitely don't like red carpets. I go on the red carpet because I have to but I'm not a big fan. That's not my thing. I'd rather be in the studio making music and performing."

Max: "Whenever I'm feeling down, I remind myself that my flaws make me perfect, because in reality there is no perfect."

Max: "If it doesn't make me dance, I don't want to put it out."

Max: "School was not a good experience. I would get bullied. It was really hard for me to get along with people who didn't have the same goals, so I just wanted to get to California."

Max: "So Am I' is about loving yourself, being different, being an outcast and not fitting in the format that society wants to put us in - just celebrating what really makes you different."

Max: "If I can make someone's day brighter, happier, better, that makes me happier."

Max: "Guys like to gaslight us, and it's not cool. And it happens so much; it's happened to me in relationships. It's happened to me where I have been cheated on, and I felt so sad and angry, like it wasn't my fault, but that was because the person was gaslighting me into thinking it was my fault."

Max: "Female empowerment is very strong in my life and that's how I am."

Max: "I don't have one song about partying."

Max: "Sweet But Psycho' blew up pretty much overnight after my 10-year struggle. It's hilarious when people say it was overnight, because it was not overnight."

Max: "I got really noticed by record labels and that's how I got signed."

Max: "Oh my gosh, I mean, I've had many experiences of men calling me psycho."

Max: "My family had this dream where we would meet producers and songwriters, and it was not what we thought it would be."

Max: "My heritage has definitely shaped my music and my character in a lot of ways."

Max: "I've been working at this for a while now, so seeing the success of 'Sweet but Psycho' is kind of mind-blowing, but it's exciting."

Max: "I think I was super young when I decided I wanted to be in music and be a singer."