It's a big responsibility to help someone express themselves as an artist.

I just get really bored with sticking to the norm and having the proper conservative image. That's just so not me.

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.

The most vulnerable people have tough exteriors because they are very scared inside, and it's very hard for people like that - people like me - to open up. But playing it safe means you stop being open to learning. I always try to find the challenges.

I have a lot of things to say and a lot of things to let out of me.

Right now I'm pretty single... My career is my boyfriend.

The schedule is crazy - it's all suitcases and hotel rooms and you just go nonstop. It's a crazy lifestyle, it really is.