I've always been a girl who loves to dress up.

I think after doing Push and Shove and having it not be successful, I lost a lot of confidence. Songwriting, for me, has always been traumatic, and I've always made all these excuses. But I've realized that you have to just accept that it was a gift: "I don't know where it came from, I don't know how I did it, but I did write all those songs, and I gotta do it again."

We all have to go through hard times. Tragedies. Those are given to us to see what we're going to do with them.

I thought that I was going to be like this earth mother. When people would complain about being pregnant, I was like, 'What are you talking about? It's incredible! Just enjoy it.'

Every day I fail at something.

Working with (new collaborators) and letting people in to try new melodies and new lyrical ideas was very hard.

Thank God that I get to do what I get to do; there's no way to tell you how grateful I am.