My goals are to tell meaningful stories through songs and touch people's lives... and hopefully make a living doing it.

I played softball and basketball growing up. I really wanted to play football but both parents said no. I was mad for a second, then got over it. Now, just because I'm tall doesn't mean I can play basketball. I was waaaaay better at swinging a bat.

If I don't laugh at least 20 times a day - it hasn't been a good day.

Hollywood large is so different than real-life large.

When I was on 'Idol' and 17, everything was so new. Everyone is so nice and wants to see you succeed.

When I go out clubbing I can dance 'til three o'clock in the morning with just a water bottle in my hand. I love dancing to anything with a good beat really. My favorite song to dance to at the moment is probably Drake's 'Best I Ever Had'.

Everybody can relate to feeling hopeless, at some point in their life, and everybody can relate to fighting for something that's worth fighting for, and everybody can relate to a person in their life that makes them go, "I don't know why you're here right now," but then, at the end of the day, realizing you'd do anything for them.