I've just never cared what people think. It's more if I'm happy and I'm confident and feeling good, that's always been my thing.

I never said I was a 'good girl.' I'm not a bad girl. I'm just normal, and that's what I'm going to be. There's no bad girl with whips and chains that's going to come out. I think people like me because I was myself.

I sound like such a tool, but becoming a mother has made me next-level confident. I've never felt more empowered.

I'm proud of everything I achieved with 'Idol,' and away from 'Idol' also. It's just such a different show now to what it was when I was on it. I didn't even know it was a TV show until the third audition.

I sing songs that I have lived or I write them because I have lived them. I think the believability factor is key.

I've just never cared what people think. It's more if I'm happy and I'm confident and feeling good, that's always been my thing.

I'm actually not a big fan of the word hope. I think it's a depressing word. I don't want to hope - I want to know. Like I don't hope there's a God, I know there's a God.