I'll continue to try and balance like a circus act. And I will just fight to always tell the truth. Even if it's difficult.

You never know what's actually going on in a person's life. You don't know what happened to them before you met them...and that's why they are the way they are. But I do think about it whenever I get in contact with my fans. I know this may be the only time they'll ever meet me. I try to take advantage of that moment and be kind and grateful.

I'd go to the farmers' market in Santa Barbara, and I'd put out my guitar case, and I'd test out these little ditty songs that I would write, and I would get a couple of avocados, a bag of pistachios, and, like, fifteen bucks. That was a lot of money for me.

Be yourself and you can be anything.

I came from a lot of intolerance and prejudice, which aren't necessarily healthy to evolve as a human.

I'm not defined by where I came from. I never took part in the rules and hatred that sometimes go along with religion. But if my parents are happy with what they believe, then I'm happy to stay out of their way. We agree to disagree.

At my second record label, they told me and other female artists that some of us were going on the chopping block. I was 19... and it was devastating.