One of my dream collaborations is to work with Sade. I would love to work with Andre 3000, Miguel.

One of my dream collaborations is to work with Sade. I would love to work with Andre 3000, Miguel.

As a young girl, I remember singing CeCe Penniston's 'Don't Walk Away.' It was like my jam.

I think that's my gift in this world is to put experience into music.

I took lessons for about everything you could imagine - gymnastics to karate to flute and piano. My mom always definitely kept me in some kind of class or program, but for guitar, I kinda gave up on then kinda just taught myself. Same thing with piano. I've never been good with following lessons.

As soon as I could speak, I was singing. Before I could even speak full words, I would make up ones to sing and I have it on tape, too.

It was not cool to be that fun, bubbly kid, so I would just go off on my own and sing and make up songs, and that's how I think I developed into the kind of artist and writer that I am.