I'm the perfect amount of guarded. I don't reveal too much, and I never reveal who the songs are about. They are real life. People get that. I date a lot of musicians and they do the same thing. People that work with me - who I write about too - they get it. It's my creative outlet, my therapy.

Confidence is seen, not heard.

I feel like as a generation, we sell ourselves short. I just expected more from us.

Never take advice from someone you wouldn't trade places with.

I think one thing you could probably say for all my albums is that they're all pretty eclectic pop. There's always a little bit of urban influence, some dance, a little bit of country, singer-songwriter, pop-rock. I like everything! On every album you can find that.

The fact that I get to do what I love and 14 years in, I'm still doing it - I don't know how anything could get better.

I just had my 30th birthday and we went turkey shooting. It's what I wanted to do, so we went.