Hayley Kiyoko
Hayley Kiyoko

We all want to be loved. We all want to feel accepted. We all want to feel content. And life is hard.

Hayley Kiyoko
Hayley Kiyoko

I just tend to date straight girls. That's my problem: I'm a turner.

Hayley Kiyoko
Hayley Kiyoko

My motto is to help people love themselves sooner. I can't teach them how to do that. They have to figure that out on their own - that's their journey.

Hayley Kiyoko
Hayley Kiyoko

My friends call my style 'old man chic.' I wear loafers and stylish sweatpants. I love to stay comfortable, so I definitely funk it up, but I'm always comfortable. I wear lots of hats and feathers, and I kind of have a little obsession with Native American jewelry.

Hayley Kiyoko
Hayley Kiyoko

Being young is so hard. You're surrounded by judgment and fear.

Hayley Kiyoko
Hayley Kiyoko

For me, every music video is a hurdle. Every time I do a music video, I'm constantly fighting to get my point across. As a gay woman, that's also a big hurdle.

Hayley Kiyoko
Hayley Kiyoko

I personally feel like people shouldn't have to come out. That, to me, was like a moment for myself where I was coming out to myself with, like, 'Okay, I can be the artist that I want to be, and as long as the music is good, people will accept me. It doesn't matter who I am, what I look like. If the music is good, they will like me. The end.'

Hayley Kiyoko
Hayley Kiyoko

My journey has really been trying to normalize girls loving girls.

Hayley Kiyoko
Hayley Kiyoko

Everything I do I believe in 100 percent, and I believe it's important.

Hayley Kiyoko
Hayley Kiyoko

I loved the idea of how all these guys always are stealing other guys' girls and I was like, 'There's no female anthem for a girl stealing another guy's girl,' and that is the coolest thing ever.

Hayley Kiyoko
Hayley Kiyoko

The music industry is such a different world from the acting world. Everything is really last minute, but I love the challenge, and I love owning my material and being able to put out what I want.

Hayley Kiyoko
Hayley Kiyoko

I love women, but I also respect them.

Hayley Kiyoko
Hayley Kiyoko

My goal has always been to just be a person who makes great art.

Hayley Kiyoko
Hayley Kiyoko

In the dating game, the world is difficult because people don't communicate, or they communicate, but then their actions speak louder than words.

Hayley Kiyoko
Hayley Kiyoko

I've always wanted to do a video of me following a girl down the street. Michael Jackson's done it. Omarion's done it. All these male pop artists have followed women down streets in videos - it's kind of the classic thing. And I was like, there is no video of a girl following a girl down the street. I need to do this at some point in my life.

Hayley Kiyoko
Hayley Kiyoko

That's the whole point of my trying to achieve success in mainstream pop - to have straight people sing to my music that has a 'she' pronoun in it.

Hayley Kiyoko
Hayley Kiyoko

I've been parading around, leading people, being loud, since forever.

Hayley Kiyoko
Hayley Kiyoko

My mom choreographed the top Olympians; she's really the queen of ice in her world, so I kind of get my directorial bug from her because she's really good at telling people what to do!

Hayley Kiyoko
Hayley Kiyoko

It's tough as an artist to have such a specific vision for your video in mind when you write a song. Reaching out to directors is like going on blind dates and trying to find someone who sees the exact vision behind your music, which can be really difficult.

Hayley Kiyoko
Hayley Kiyoko

I really never imagined that I could ever even direct anything, so 'Girls Like Girls' was co-directed.