Of course I love music and I love what I do, but seeing their response to my work is my favourite part of it.

I met India Arie, who is one of my favorite artists of all time. It was really sweet, I was broken up with a month before, and she stayed up texting me all night and was helping me through it. Her text message looks like a song of hers. She's sort of become my fairy godmother.

I learnt a lot from my Broadway experience, it was one of the most challenging things I will probably ever have to do in my entire life, because it was eight shows a week - live singing with really hard choreography - and the spontaneity, you don't know what's going to happen.

If anyone tries to bully you don’t let them. Take the positive energy form a ball of rainbow power and just, like shove it.

Don't ever doubt yourselves or waste a second of your life. It's too short, and you're too special.

How much further can your head get up your ass that you're actually judging someone as a person based on their sexuality before you even have a conversation with them?

I was never comfortable because I was always trying to wear what was trendy, but it never felt right on my body or in my skin. It felt wrong. I was finally like, hey, fashion and style can be just about self-expresession, about what makes you feel stylish.