Trying to be a professional dancer, paying my rent by posing nude for art classes, staring at people staring at me naked. Daring them to think of me as anything but a form they were trying to capture with their pencils and charcoal. I was defiant. Hell-bent on surviving. On making it. But it was hard and it was lonely, and I had to dare myself every day to keep going.

I've been practicing yoga very seriously for a little over a year and I believe that helped my voice and affected my singing.

I'm very grateful that I had work to do. I may have thrown myself off a building.

Don't go for second best. Put your love to the test.

I am the result of the good choices I've made and the bad choices.

There is a very modest side to me too. How far away from me is the image? It's about 20 steps away.

I think for the most part men have always been the aggressors sexually. Through time immemorial they've always been in control. So I think sex is equated with power in a way, and that's scary in a way. It's scary for men that women would have that power, and I think it's scary for women to have that power - or to have that power and be sexy at the same time.