My dad would give me $10, which is a lot of money when you're 9, to sing at church, on tables at restaurants, at family functions, just about anywhere.

I'm like a fatter version of Amy Winehouse and a skinnier version of Lily Allen.

Maybe I'm competitive. I just feel like I have this gift that I've been given. It's like, "Someone unwrap it! Here it is!" That drive can't be held down. I have a lot of ambition.

I think the world likes to pick apart different songs and play doctor with songs sometimes and make them into this big controversial thing.

My whole thing is to agree to disagree and to have respect because nothing can really be changed and you wouldn't want to ruin their happiness - even if that happiness is ignorance.

Many people think I try to be like Lady Gaga but what they don't know is that I'm a Britney Spears wanna be.

I'm not defined by where I came from.