"The way he put across all of his music... the whole vibe... I think he took the world and threw it for a loop and reminded us what music really is," the singer-songwriter said. "I want to do that for my whole life. You know what it is? There’s so much judgment geared toward young girls. People just expect so much from girls. Even physically and aesthetically — people expect us to always look right, to have a certain etiquette — to talk a certain way and act a certain way, and to know certain things. It’s all different expectations, but there are always expectations. There’s even expectations amongst us, just in the female community. “You have to fight for this, you have to be like that.” I don’t want to be perceived as a girl who has to do this, or fight for that. Even though I want to do all those things … I want to be looked at as apersonwho wants to do those things.TV Now, I don't want to dismiss the experience of people who have been traumatized by it and who are in a state of despair and fatalism. That’s a real concern. But ultimately, it doesn't change the facts on the ground. And, I think the best antidote to feelings of despair is engagement and progress. We should do what we can to keep everyone part of the fight and engage them, and I do think that progress is the best way to do that. It's really important to keep in mind that the US has a moral obligation. It is responsible for the lion's share of historical emissions, and it's the second-biggest emitter in the world today. But still, it's only responsible for about 15 percent of the global total. Going forward that number is going to fall, and our future climate is going to be determined by other countries in the world. And I don't see a mass movement of veganism here, for instance, or every American abandoning air travel, really moving the needle.