[On her feelings on social media]

Rae: “I want to say it’s a launch pad, but I don’t want to say that. Because I value social media just as much as I value anything else, because it does give you such a platform, and that’s kind of where people want to be … A lot of times people think that people only do social media, or that it’s their only interest. But I think social media is a door that opens up so many opportunities for things in your life.”

Rae: “When I look at negative comments I can’t let it get to me that much and I think, 'That doesn't define me, and they don't really truly know me in my heart.’ There's going to be people that don't like you and that want to tear you down, but you have to love yourself for who you are.”

Rae: “I think my entire life I’ve kind of always looked up to love. I’m a hopeless romantic, if you will. But I do know that maybe now’s my time to be hopelessly in love with myself and that’s kind of what I’ve been trying to do, which has been an interesting thing.”

Rae: “For me, a lot of people have said, ‘Oh I love how comfortable she is and she doesn’t look like the beauty standard.' It’s a backhanded compliment sometimes because people will be like, ‘I’m so glad she’s confident that she doesn’t look perfect.’ It hurts sometimes when people say that, because I think everyone’s perfect, so why is there some standard of ‘this body is the ideal body’? I have thought a lot in the past year that it doesn’t really define me and I am learning to love my body and who I am, for what I am.”

Rae: “It’s really just about remembering where you came from and staying true to who you are. If I’m genuinely happy with the people I’m around and the things I’m doing, then I try not to let those words get to me.”

Rae: “I get overwhelmed in general by wanting to make everything perfect so sometimes I have to get something done with not much time to complete it and that definitely overwhelms me. I think the last year has made feel a lot of different ways – I’m not sure that overwhelmed is the first one that I’d list.  The comments don’t overwhelm me but will sometimes make me sad.”

Rae: “I’m not bothered by [being in the public eye], I don’t really care what narratives people put on things because that doesn’t change the truth … knowing yourself, knowing your intention, knowing who you are and the truth behind a photo, video, picture, whatever, conversation, you know who you are behind it, so it doesn’t even really matter.”

[On the worst and best parts of fame]

Rae: “Just dealing with the fact that there are gonna be people that just don’t like you, and will always have something negative to say about you, but there’s so many good parts about this industry and the social media world, that it kind of just outweighs it. At the end of the day, I have to look at the positive and not look at the negative. And the positive has brought me so many great things.”

Rae: “When I go out even now, let that be one person that notices me or 100 people that notice me … I love it … I think adjusting to that hasn’t been hard for me because I just love conversation and meeting new people.”

Rae: “There are days when it does get really hard and you do get down on yourself and you start to look at those things and think they’re a reflection of you. But I think it’s really just about realizing that you weren’t made to please everybody.”

Rae: “Right now is my time to focus on me and I’ve kind of really just taken control of that and realize that, you know, you can only get presented opportunities for so long and then they kind of go away. And when you’re in a relationship, especially like a romantic one, I’m very guilty of, you know, putting a lot into that and loving that.”

Rae: “We didn’t really know where this was going. We still don’t like, we’re still like wondering where we’re going to be next year. Like what’s going to happen in a few months? I mean, literally me last week, I’m like, Oh, and then something happens and you’re like, my wait, wait, how do I adjust to this?”

Rae: “Honestly I feel like it was right after The Kid LAROI did this song [‘Addison Rae’], and then the pandemic hit and I feel like it just got people to really wonder who I was... I mean having a song, a literal song, that has your full name as the title.”

Rae: “Keeping that inner peace, I feel like has been something that’s been really important to me, especially in the past year. Because I feel like as much as I can say, ‘Oh, just don’t read the comments, or don’t read this, or don’t look at that,’ and that’s just a part of being someone that also wants to make my supporters happy, my fans happy. Obviously, I’m going to read their feedback and want to know what they think about things.”