In 2009, I traveled to South Sudan with my organization PSI. While there, I visited a local school and met with a group of children who had formed a water club. The group learned about how to treat their drinking water and use proper hygiene practices, such as washing their hands before eating or after going to the bathroom.

I'm really kind of boring - I'd rather go to bed early and get up early because I really value my time off, my time away from work.

Being honest...[to reporters] Not the worst thing in the world. Don't write that down.

I like pencil skirts because they hug me in all the right places.

I write a lot on airplanes actually because it's completely isolating; there's no one to talk to, there's nothing to do. And then I think a lot of it sort of comes out sitting down with the people I'm co-writing with and talking to them about what I'm going through and what I want to say. It just sort of happens; every song came about in a completely different yet organic way.

As long as you're fierce and you have that inner confidence with yourself, you can get through anything.

I like being friends with other women who are supportive of women. I think that is important.