Let me fall. Let me climb. There's a moment where fear and dream must collide.

If there is one thing that is constant in this world, it is the power of music.

As a new artist there's always outside influences trying to tell you how to make a song better for radio and how to do your hair.

My feeling is, Twitter's free. If people want to have a political discourse with me on Twitter, and they disagree with me, I've got all the time in the world for that. It's when it gets nasty that I have problems.

The songs that I sing and the songs that I write have always just been what I feel my voice does well, and what my inspirations have been and a kind of culmination of everything.

I'm always so pleased when I can get a song or be given a song that really speaks to me and I can interpret, but if given the opportunity to really write from the heart and try and bring some personality to whatever this genre would be, it was a great opportunity for me.

I get terrible butterflies. Before I go onstage, I'll have to freak out for five minutes. I scream. It seems to help!