I leave for the show at least an hour ahead, and I do some vocal warm-ups, and that's pretty much it.

You want to have butterflies in your stomach, because if you don't, if you walk out onstage complacent, that's not a good thing.

Before I settled on music, I wanted to be an archaeologist, an astronaut, all sorts of really diverse things.

Get a book, so you know where to put your fingers. Otherwise it would be tough to learn. Also you have to fight through getting callouses on your fingers because it hurts, you are pressing your fingers on metal strings, they will hurt at first until you start building up callouses.

I do not knowingly kill any living thing - including insects or rodents - and I thank my food for sustaining me.

I've done some acting and a lot of different things, but mostly it's the music.

My parents taught me I could be anything in the world I wanted to be.