My advice would be to follow your dream. Most of my life, I was in second place before I came in first place. I hope that inspired people to never give up.

I love to shop at Macy's. It has a huge Guess section and lots of Jessica Simpson stuff.

I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!

It's interesting because what I do and what I sing is, to other people, pretty unique. I feel I'm creating my own path... and I'm working on growing as a performer.

I'm not going to choose between classical, Broadway or pop. I would love to stay where I am now - a mix of everything.

It's good to kind of get away from the star treatment.

I don't think I'll ever want to do pop music. I think I'll only ever want to do classical crossover because it's something that I love, and pop just doesn't work for me.