People have been kind enough to compare me to Celine Dion, Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston. I think it's amazing that they even put my name in the same sentence.

A part of me feels like I was an animal in my past life that wasn't treated very nicely.

I suffer from arachnophobia. I don't mind the tiny spiders so much, it's the ones with their legs covered in thick hair.

I don't have many famous friends, really, except Simon Cowell.

Kids need somewhere to go, so they're not bored on the street.

Love is a very powerful emotion and when a break-up is unexpected, it's very hard to get over.

People would ask me, "what do you want to be when you're older?" and I'd be like, "a singer," and they'd be like, "what do you really want to be?" and I'd be like, "oh, I really want to be a singer."