It's ok not to be ok. Just be true to who you are.

The journey is more important than where you end up.

I am a dork in disguise; I love doing stupid stuff.

But I love singing live. Nothing beats the feeling of going out on stage and going, 'I can really sing.'

Sometimes you have to be a diva. All the artists I admire from Madonna to Whitney to Mariah have all been called divas. If you are strong, if you have vision, if you are an artist, you have to do what you believe in. And if you get called a diva for it, then so what.

It's weird because when you initially write a song, you write it with no understanding that the world is maybe going to hear it one day. So when you go into the studio, you don't see the hundreds of people at a gig or the viewers on TV, you just write a song without any inhibitions or boundaries.

I can play the air guitar really, really well.