Kim Petras

Growing up, I used to literally run home from school to watch the Dior and Galliano shows online.

I want to become one of the songwriting greats. That's my number one goal.

As a kid, I watched every Madonna documentary and tour. I was obsessed with her - and with any pop star of the '80s.

Pop music means everything to me. I've been listening to pop since I was kid, running home from school to watch Britney Spears and Spice Girls and Christina Aguilera music videos, and it felt like it was a world to escape to for me personally.

I definitely always took my problems and turned them into music, and the more I can make myself feel happy, the better. But yeah, I definitely feel like music was always a place for me to, like, escape to. I just love songs that are fantasy.

I love Bob Marley so much. Honestly, all of Madonna's discography. She has so many amazing, fun songs. Or Cyndi Lauper. The thing is, at the same time, I also love listening to Lana Del Rey all the time, the saddest thing you can do to yourself.

I love nostalgic pop music. The '80s especially, to me, is the greatest era of songs. I just love the '80s so much.

It's a recurring thing: It's that I fall really deeply for bad relationships. It's just always been this way and not changing.

I would love to work with Drake. I think he's such a pop star, and he's dropping amazing songs.

When I hear heartbreak songs, I always feel like, 'O.K. that's exactly how I feel... I'm not the only person who fell in love like a stupid person.'

I don't know - a lot of people think it's a really negative thing to do bubble gum pop, but I love it. I, like, want to own it.

I love Halloween, and I love spooky stuff. I love horror movies. I love everything creepy, and I've always kind of wanted to do this, just do really dark pop.