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I kept hiding my smile in pictures throughout middle school and most of high school until picture day came my senior year.

Smiles come naturally to me, but I started thinking of them as an art form at my command. I studied all the time. I looked at magazines, I'd practice in front of the mirror and I'd ask photographers about the best angles. I can now pull out a smile at will.

When I draw my caricature self-portrait, I always do a huge smile.

Sometimes when I'm being photographed, I hear the voice of this photographer who told me when I was about six while he was taking my school photo that I didn't have a nice smile, and I shouldn't smile in photos.

I think a smile can make your whole body. Models, they look fabulous, but they don't smile, and they look so mad.

I never smile unless I mean it.

I don't smile much, and I never laugh. If you'd been through what I've been through, you wouldn't be smiling, either.

People often expect me to be very serious, but it's not like my record company told me not to smile in photographs, because I was like that anyway.