I wasn't allowed to listen to a lot of music growing up. It wasn't until I started to make my gospel record when I was around 14 or 15 that I started to be exposed to more outside influences.

You look at someone like Beyoncé singing Single Ladies, when we all know she's married. Some of it is just for entertainment.

If you like my music, great, and if you don't, whatever. I'm going to keep making it either way.

I have to be a ginger for 3 weeks.

I still have a spiritual base and a spiritual foundation.

They think that I was like Amy Grant, when actually no! The label went bankrupt and maybe sold a couple hundred records and that's about it. I was just trying different things.

I don't feel like I'm very pop-star lame, but I'm definitely not hipster-cool.