Meghan Trainor.

Growing Up, I Didn’t Get the Talk of ‘Make Sure Boys Take You on a Date and Treat You Right.’ so I Was the Girl Who Wasn’t Dating and Would Just Text. I Dated These Guys Who Didn’t Have Jobs, and I Would Always Be Paying. at One Point, I Remember Looking in the Mirror and Thinking, ‘You’re Too Pretty and Cool to Be Treated Like This.’

When I Was 13, I Told My Dad I Needed to Record Myself Because I Sounded Awesome, Even Though I Didn’t. by 18, I Was a Lot Better. Then I Got a Publishing Deal, so I Was Writing Songs for Other People Professionally.

I Was Always a Little Insecure. I Had Brothers That Played Football, so I Was Just a Straight-up Tomboy for a Minute. I Didn’t Know Makeup and Hair Stuff. My Friends Had to Tell Me What a Straightener Was. I Didn’t Know Fashion or Any of That Until the Label Gave Me a Stylist.

I Wasn’t Strong Enough to Have an Eating Disorder. I Tried to Go Anorexic for a Good Three Hours. I Ate Ice and Celery, but That’s Not Even Anorexic. and I Quit. I Was Like, ‘Ma, Can You Make Me a Sandwich? Like, Immediately.’

I Like Ariana Grande’s Nice Thigh-gap; She’s Got Good Legs.

I Grew up a Chubby Girl. I Had Two Brothers. My Parents Loved Us, They Just Fed Us Whatever We Wanted.

At 18, I Got a Publishing Deal, so I Was Like, ‘I Can Do This for Real and Not Go to College.’ When I Was a Teenager, My Parents Dragged Me to a Lot of Songwriting Conventions.

All My Friends Were Cheerleaders, and I Was the Girl Who Hung Out at Home. I Just Worked on My Music All the Time.

After Two Years in the Songwriting World, I Wrote ‘All About That Bass.’ L.A. Reid Heard It and Signed Me as an Artist.

A Lot of People Think I Came Out of Nowhere. When You Start as a Songwriter, Nobody Knows Who You Are. I Met the Guy Who Wrote ‘Yeah’ by Usher, Which Was a Huge Smash, and Nobody Knew Who He Was.

I Totally Agree with Equal Rights and Women’s Causes, and Most of My Songs Are Woman-power, but I Don’t Want to Be Labelled at 20 Years Old.

I Had a Reporter Ask Me How Much I Weigh. I Said to Him, ‘You Go First: How Much Do You Weigh?’ People Always Ask Me What I Eat. Other Artists Don’t Get Asked These Questions.

I’ve Never Been a Die-hard Fan, Like a Crazy Fan for an Artist.

I Cry for a Lot of Good Things That Happen. I Cry a Lot, Okay?

Radio Was My Life Growing Up. Then, I Started in Our Family Band with My Uncle, My Father, My Aunt and My Little Brother. We Would Go to the Chicken Box and All the Bars and Play.

When I Got Signed as a Songwriter, I Immediately Thought, ‘Oh, No One Sees Me as an Artist Because I Don’t Look Good Enough.’ so I Shut Down the Whole Idea.

For Me, the Greatest High Is Being Credited by Fans with Making It Cool to Be Robust Instead of a Rail – Hip to Have Hips, If You Will. I Love That!