At first it was my brother's songwriting and I was just doing what everyone told me.
Act as young as you feel. You're not getting older; you're getting more entitled to be your fabulous self.
It feels like the more I'm out there in the public eye, the more criticism I get. You need to have confidence - that's what it takes to walk out there and sing a song in front of a huge group of people.
Although I'd always wanted children, it was such an opposite thing to being a singer.
Being a mom is hard, I think a lot of working moms feel that way.
I clearly remember writing songs [when I was young] and the power that it gave me of feeling like somebody. My whole life changed when I wrote those songs, even before anyone ever heard them. It wasn't a commercial thing.