I never, ever in my heart want to hurt anyone.

I think I'm realizing I've always been able to move people, just getting people to talk.

I needed to become something besides the star everybody had built me up to be.

Janis Joplin is definitely one of my biggest influences. She taught me how to feel music, and I don't think there's anyone like her that could bring such pain and emotion to a song.

I am incredibly emotionally aware and connected with other people. You know, when you come see me live, you can see that different kind of connection and that connection with what I'm saying, and the things I'm singing about. So it really is about just keeping my eyes open.

I don't want to wake up and not truly be enjoying my life and these amazing things around me.

I know myself, and when you start to really know who you are, you don't question it when you read what someone says about you.