I think that the best way you can get honesty across in your music to connect and relate to people is to be motivated by personal emotions, stories and feelings.

Being too thin. Being bigger. I've been criticized for being on both sides of the scale.

I am very honest, even in interviews.

Don't let anything morph you or push you around or have you be something you're not.

I'm not a judgmental person, so I can't comment on someone else's background.

I talk openly about my past and what I've gone through - abuse being something that was very real in my household, and a lot of chaos growing up as a child. I think that I naturally just gravitated towards music that I could really feel on a deep level - and that meant sadness. I was able to connect with that at a really young age.

That's why I wrote 'Fighter'. I have that need in me to help people. I am all about the underdog.