[Sang:] It’s power, yes? And you're—my takeaway, just from the teaser, [is] that you’re telling women that you are capable of so much more, you are so much more than society says around you. And you can aspire to whatever you wanna be.

[Steinfeld:] Exactly, and to add to that, it really is about not only the thought of knowing that about yourself with the way you are, but the song basically says it’s okay to want to change certain things about yourself. If you feel better with make-up on, put make-up on, take the extra time out of your day and wear it, it’s really all about “Yeah, you’re awesome the way you are.” And for me, as a young woman looking around and looking at other women and being inspired by them and finding them incredibly strong and unstoppable and smart and wanting to be like that, I think is just a real progressive way of thinking [about] this song.

—Hailee Steinfeld on the Zach Sang Show.

As much as it’s […] some girls are this, some girls are that, it’s most girls, most girls you know, most girls that are in this world—and it is really [that] all women have something to offer and have a story and have a goal in life or someone they find inspirational or something. And… hear the song and it’ll make sense, I promise.

—Hailee Steinfeld on the Zach Sang Show.

I actually met Ryan [Tedder] backstage at Jimmy Fallon in New York, the day the Golden Globe nomination’s been announced […]. We met and it was a quick sort of introduction and I had this song and one component that it really, really needed was a Ryan Tedder production and I went to him and he fell in love with the song and he killed it. And I love him and we’re working on other things now and he’s awesome.

—Hailee Steinfeld on the Zach Sang Show.