It's a really cool time for artists who want to strive for a little more depth in what they want to say to come forward. We live in a very fast world right now. We've got all this media and music which is so accessible to us, it's here one minute gone the next.

I'm turning 22, so I want to start getting into work that reflects where I'm at in life now.

I want to be the kind of artist who keeps pushing on every album. I don't want to settle on a sound.

I do like the idea of pulling in different producers to get new perspectives. That's what I did with Vows and I feel it just gives variety and makes for a more exciting journey for the listener.

The fun of being in the pop world is you can really play with people's perceptions of what the word pop means.

I like challenging people. I love pop music that can just throw you off.

That's the beauty of song writing. You never know when inspiration will come or how it will hit, you just gotta kinda grasp a hold of it and make sense of it somehow.