I'm just coming out and I'm going to clearly be myself - I write what I feel, I never worry what others think.

I didn't just write about boys and relationships like usual. I wrote about other things: rock 'n' roll, nostalgia, Hello Kitty.

I'm waking up to say I tried, instead of waking up to another TV guide.

I want to be played on the radio. I want to have Top 40 hits.

The mall tour was right off of my second record, before it came out. It was very different. I did an acoustic performance every day in a different mall! One interesting thing I remember is playing "My Happy Ending" a lot, and that song was so new that I remember getting emotional when I would play it.

I might look like a tough chick - and I am - but I`m also a hopeless romantic inside.

Well, a lot of people don't know this about me, but I'm actually shy around people I don't know. I would just say with my first concert, my first tour, I didn't really talk onstage. I was like, "Thank you, I love you guys," or whatever. But now I've just kind of learned to work a crowd.