Even if you actually have the good intent to do something creative or special with your life, it's hard. I mean, look at the number of people who actually get the opportunity.

I sacrifice in my love life and my social life, but those things will be there in three or four years. This is a really important time in my life. I can't just be the girl who sang 'I Kissed a Girl.' I have to leave a legacy.

I'm on this extraordinary adventure, and if I have no one to talk to at the end of the night, I feel lonely.

When I was 13, I asked for a guitar. And that's how I really started explaining my point of view.

If you're presenting yourself with confidence, you can pull off pretty much anything.

Santa Barbara is my hood. I mean, it's not much of a hood, but it is definitely like my hood. I claim Santa Barbara like I claim my family. I'm going to be married and buried there.

I wanted to be that quirky girl who writes funny songs that still have meaning.