When you're part of a pop phenomenon, you have so many opinions shoved down your throat.

I felt caged by my childhood.

I embraced being a pop artist, but I like doing it on my own terms, at my own pace.

I'm experimental by nature... always exploring my creativity.

I was very pushed to look a certain way and act a certain way, and it wasn't me, but I played by their rules to get my foot in the door.

A lot of people are afraid to face themselves, especially when something goes wrong. But that's important, because if something happens within a relationship, it could be how you're allowing someone else to treat you.

There's a witch under this hair. The red lips are - I don't want to call them "armor," but they're the clothes of my character, and I'm in the business of entertainment. Wearing red lipstick helps get me into that world.