At first it was my brother's songwriting and I was just doing what everyone told me.

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.

I like the old, vintage Hollywood look.

I love that contradiction of being feminine but playing in the boys' treehouse. My whole life's been like that.

Sometimes life is so crazy, you have to go through something to be able to find out what you're supposed to talk about next, and I think that's what happened to me.

Out of all the artistic things I do, music is the most rewarding because it's so hard to write songs.

Music has this emotional thing to it, and it touches people in crazy ways. The power of having that power is something that, once you have it, you don't want it to ever end.