Sivan: "I don't know what I would have done had I not found the Internet. I found a community of people who I really liked and who I felt got me."

Sivan: "I spent so long and so much of my childhood holding myself back for fear of what people would think. I'm trying my best every day to throw that away."

Sivan: "I share every aspect of my life with the Internet. Whether or not that's a good thing, I don't know."

Sivan: "Ever since I was a little kid, I got bored, so I learned to sing, and I started singing lessons. And then anytime I was bored, I would start writing and start messing around on my computer, making beats. Then I got bored and started making YouTube videos; that changed my life in a big way."

Sivan: "I feel like I'm the most creative when I'm bored."

Sivan: "I know who I am, and I know what my ambitions are. If one kid sees me on TV or sees me in a movie and relates, then I'm done. That's perfectly fine. That's enough for me."

Sivan: "I'm on the path to being someone I'm equally terrified by and obsessed with. My true self."

Sivan: "I super strongly identify with marginalized communities. I'm not at all religious, but I feel super, super Jewish. I can't even describe the feeling, but it actually feels really similar to being gay, the kind of kinship that you feel with the LGBTQ people. That same sense of community is there with Judaism."

Sivan: "Before coming out, I remember distinctly feeling like there was a delay on my life."

Sivan: "All my friends were doing just dumb stuff that kids do, like making out with people at parties and starting to date... I didn't know any gay people growing up or any queer people growing up, and so I just really felt alone and kind of lost, and I just wasn't experiencing life."

Sivan: "I'm most proud of my work in the LGBTQ space. Feels like, above all else, that's something I want to do for the rest of my life."

Sivan: "Whatever success I have found has been a collaborative effort of people helping out and opening their minds and being accepting and celebrating who I am."

Sivan: "Before I came out, the thought of someone calling me gay, even when I knew very well that I was, was petrifying."

Sivan: "When I was younger, out in public, I never wanted to pop my hip and definitely made sure that my wrist was nice and firm. All these silly, prohibitive things."

Sivan: "I always felt different in a lot of ways and didn't really know how to express that."

Sivan: "I watched pretty much every coming out video on YouTube that has ever been posted; I watched it in between 14 and a half and 15. Those coming out videos, and those people on YouTube, those brave, brave, brave people on YouTube, without them, I don't know where I'd be."

Sivan: "I've definitely always had a passion for entertaining."

Sivan: "I think pop music is in such an exciting place right now, and I do kind of credit that to Lorde with 'Royals.' I think that song changed everything in the pop scene. All of the sudden, alternative pop music became pop music."

Sivan: "When I was born, I always knew something was a little bit different about me."

Sivan: "I feel like part of getting better at writing is knowing where to find that inspiration. Right after something happens to me, the first thing I'll do is go write when those feelings are really, really fresh."

Sivan: "It's really empowering when, as an artist, you can visualize something and then have the final product turn out the way you wanted it to."