I was always writing music anyway. I just sort of fell into it. Writing for me is a therapeutic process.

I don't think that I'm a top 40 artist in any way. So I don't think I'm that mainstream.

I really went back through a lot of the dark corridors of my life in this. I wanted people to know who I am based on my music, not on what they read in the tabloids.

I'm more of a tomboy than anything and then you see your name on these Top 50 Most Beautiful People lists and you're like, 'What?'

I never not wanted to be a singer. Since I was 3, I knew this was what I wanted to do. Well, I can't say I wanted to do it, but I fantasized and thought about it all the time. I never thought it would actually happen.

I want to pave my own path artistically.

I've been through a lot of stuff.