I'm hoping my children will save me from my vanity. If it doesn't, plastic surgery is an option... It sucks to have to grow older. We all have to accept it.

Now I got my foot - through the door - and I ain't goin' no where.

People can say whatever they want to about me... and I don't get too affected. But I didn't want them to think I was a failure.

I have to work very hard to look the way I do. I want the girls out there to know that.

I grew up in a normal family. I have sweet parents, who are still married... But my life is so different from how I thought it would be.

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."

Finding that balance between work and family is the hardest thing I've ever done - by far.