You don't owe anybody the present other than yourself. Take time for you. Respect yourself and your privacy. Set boundaries.

My sisters and my mom, those people help me get through every single day.

I believe that I definitely wasn't given this voice just to sing. I think it was given to me for a bigger purpose.

I never thought that I'd be a role model. Everyone kind of just made me a role model, and I hated that.

I want to get to the point where one day I don't have to have anything but a rug and a microphone stand on stage and still be able to sell out places like Madison Square Garden, like Bruce Springsteen does.

I feel beautiful. I feel strong, and I feel confident in who I am.

Very skinny girls were on the cover of magazines and that's what I was looking up to so that's what I had to idolize. I don't want that for young girls to idolize.