Like all these women in Hollywood, people don't realize that they work out like six hours a day with a personal trainer and have a chef. They can pay for all of that stuff, and that's why they look like that.

My girlfriends and I just started doing plyometrics. It's a killer - it hurts so much. But when you walk out of there, you're like, 'I can't believe I just did that and my body looks this good.

I say find one true friend to help you get through the tough times.

It's really hard seeing somebody you love be in pain and be ill and there's nothing you can do. What's interesting is people act in so many different ways. You know, some people run away, some people get angry, some people fall apart. It's like everybody has a different way of dealing with stuff like that.

I've learned that all you can be in this world is you. No matter how much you mess with yourself, with surgery or you know, clothes or cut your hair differently or how much you wish and pray and dream that you're gonna wake up as someone else, it's never gonna happen. You have one life and one opportunity, and all you can be is the best you.

I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music

Sometimes it's other people's voices you have to shut out.