The only person who can confine you is yourself.

I've always been an outsider kid. But I had always wanted to be in a group - growing up, I loved bands like the Cranberries and K's Choice.

I had to appreciate other things about music, like the writing and the cadence and dealing with producers. I became a student. I wanted to learn the actual idea of what this industry was before I could creatively speak a lot of the things that I wanted to speak.

We get discouraged sometimes when people look at surface only and neglect the message.

I grew up in the dance school my mother owned, and I see everything in body shapes, everything visual.

I've learned that you only become as creative as you possibly can by staying independent.

At a label, you are confined to the team you have, but I did all my solo work myself, and that makes you more agile and able to go into weirder corners.