Everyone related to me in my circle was from church: church friends, church school, church activities. All my friends weren't allowed to watch MTV or go to PG-13 movies or listen to the radio, so I didn't really know anything different. That's how I was raised.

I'm okay if everything is honest and truthful and relatable. If it's fabricated and ill-motived, it's not good.

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

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

My singing is really important to me, but when children come along they'll be my main focus. I'd never put my career in front of my babies - it'd be a case of fitting jobs around them.

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

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.