When I find myself having that much trouble with a song or a character or a story, I tend to move on.

I think a lot of the way that I try to write my stories come from watching my mom write plays and trying to do that.

Why do we love love when love seems to hate us?

I'm not the type of woman who shows off my body; I'm a vocalist and I'm a writer and I think people see that more so than they see anything else. That's just who I am.

Everybody is going to love me and this is not being cocky - this is just what I see.

After you've been away, people's expectations are like, "Well, you better have something to show for it. Tell us why you've been away so long!"

The love that I got when I finally did start performing again was all that I needed to just get back out there. Just to know that people were out there and they missed me. That made all the difference.