The second album was emotionally exhausting and my life felt like it had become very serious at a very young age.

I started performing at school and drama classes when I was 7.

Everything was going for me, I didn't even know the meaning of the word insecurity and suddenly I am surrounded by words like operation, cancer, chemotherapy, radiation.

I used to get stressed out, but my cancer has put everything into perspective.

I believe that in music and in a lot of things it's kind of like surfing, you can have a really big wave sometimes and then you can have a smaller wave.

I have been singing for as long as I could talk.

I knew who I was as a girl but I had to find who I was as a woman.