How you look is your statement, because it's a claiming of yourself.
The most important thing is to be proud of the work that you put into something, and put the ego aside.
Rarely, I think, do you find a relationship where you can experience things equally.
I don't know if we tell women great news about themselves enough. You'd be surprised how often a young woman doesn't hear positive things about herself - not in her home, not at school. It's hard to create a beautiful image for yourself when you've never seen it or heard it.
Be driven, be focused, but enjoy every moment, because it only happens once.
When I did get signed and I was going around letting people know what I was about, that's exactly how I did it: me on the piano, playing a couple of songs I'd written and talking to the people in between. That's how I got my performance chops up.