I'm still finding my way, and I made a lot of mistakes.

I absolutely refuse to bare midriff.

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

I work because I think that I wouldn't feel good about myself unless I was contributing.

I saw a Velveeta commercial and it was playing, I think 'Burning Love.' He [Michael Jackson] had approved it - that's something we can't control. He can do whatever he wants with the songs he owns to make money, and that got under my skin.

I have a lot of memories, but I don't go into capitalizing on that. Something's got to be my own. I'm not doing the record to sit here and broadcast my memories of my father.

I've never even been out of my BMI range. I'm 5-foot-3. If I gain five pounds, it shows.