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"   On the kind of star she wants to be: &amp;quot;When I look at someone who&amp;#039;s out there partying excessively or rappers rapping about doing drugs, who people look up to, and think, Oh that&amp;#039;s a G; that&amp;#039;s a gangster. I think, You&amp;#039;re actually being a giant pussy. Sorry, but those rockers in the &amp;#039;80s were the furthest thing from rock stars. They were so insecure and so lonely that they had to do these things to get them through the day. If you&amp;#039;re spending your entire early 20s chasing the next party, what are you running away from? That&amp;#039;s not a badass. What&amp;#039;s a badass is when you can sit through your problems and feel emotions when you don&amp;#039;t want to have them. There have been nights where I&amp;#039;ve had to sit on my hands, because I want to act out, because I physically can&amp;#039;t sit still in the pain I&amp;#039;m dealing with, from looking back and being bullied or other things that happened. And now, as hard as it may be, I will do that. That&amp;#039;s what makes me a badass. Being a badass is handling your shit.&amp;quot;  On her past struggles with bulimia and cutting: &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m not super religious, but I grew up Christian and I believe in God. When I&amp;#039;m in L.A., I don&amp;#039;t talk about it that much because people are very judgmental, but I just feel like God gave me a voice, not just to sing with. He put me through those things, which seemed horrible at the time, but they were so worth it. With the obstacles I&amp;#039;ve overcome, I can help people.&amp;quot;        On the lyrics from her song &amp;quot;Warrior&amp;quot; when she sings, &amp;quot;There&amp;#039;s a part of me I can&amp;#039;t get back/A little girl grew up too fast/All it took was once, I&amp;#039;ll never be the same/Now I&amp;#039;m taking back my life today&amp;quot;: &amp;quot;My family knows what it&amp;#039;s about. When I&amp;#039;m ready to open up that subject with the outside world, then I&amp;#039;ll be free to talk about it. But right now, it&amp;#039;s kind of one of those things where the lyrics speak for me. It&amp;#039;s all in the song.&amp;quot; On her upcoming 21st birthday: &amp;quot;I look at birthdays as celebrating another year of life. You&amp;#039;ve made it another year. An entire year. Some people don&amp;#039;t make it to 21.&amp;quot;  On her first gig at age seven on Barney &amp;amp;amp; Friends and singing the theme song: &amp;quot;At the time, I was just so grateful to be on TV, but I was also really struggling. Looking back, there was a connection, probably between any kid who&amp;#039;s ever sang that song to Barney, a little place in a child&amp;#039;s heart, a void, that could be filled. And maybe Barney fills it. Even before Barney, I was suicidal. I was seven. With Barney, I guess subliminally, I did have a relationship with this figure that was saving my life in a way\u2026 I&amp;#039;ve talked about being bullied and the years of being a teenager, but I went through things when I was younger that I&amp;#039;ve never talked about that probably caused me to turn out the way I ended up turning out.&amp;quot; For more of Demi&amp;#039;s exclusive interview with Cosmopolitan pick up the new issue on newsstands July 9. BONUS: Did you know you can get your monthly issue of Cosmo on your e-reader? It&amp;#039;s the same issue you&amp;#039;d buy on the newsstand, but you can flip through it with the touch of your finger. Touch your device below to download. You&amp;#039;ll be reading your favorite magazine in just minutes. Have a Kindle? Touch here. Have a NOOK? Touch here. Have an iPad? Touch here. Photo: Matt Jones "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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